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Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961.
Hemingway was born and raised
in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, (map) 12 miles northwest of the Hyde Park area in
Chicago.
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http://www.swarthmore.edu/~preset/farewell.html Hemingway
excerpt
http://www.alsintl.com/poetry/ilikeamericans.htm I
like Americans poem by Hemingway
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006085 Hemingway
on war
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-prose.html Excerpt
from the Old
Man and the Sea, by Hemingway
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1999/09/29/58.asp Hemingway
on penis size
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Saul Bellow, b. 1915.
Bellow lived in Hyde Park on and off for most of his adult life. Some
of his characters are based on real-life Hyde Parkers. |
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/osa/retest/retestarch/crelabmod1.pdf Excerpt
from 'Seize the Day' by Saul Bellow
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Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000.
Brooks was born in Topeka Kansas, 430 miles southwest of Chicago. She
was raised in and a life long resident of Chicago and attended Hyde Park,
Wendell Phillips, and Englewood High Schools.
List of Works: http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=166
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http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0060931744
Poem 'kitchenette Building' from 'Street in Bronzeville'. http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07070A70 Poem 'We Real Cool' from 'the Bean Eaters' (1960). http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C070C0E75 Poem 'The Lovers of the Poor' from 'Selected Poems' (1960). http://www.achievementinfo.com/2001ELA7/2001ELA7.19-26.html Excerpt from 'Maud Martha', prose novel by Gwendolyn Brooks. |
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Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967.
Sandburg was born in Galesburg, IL, 150 miles southwest of Chicago,
50 miles east of the Iowa-Illinois border. He attended Lombard College in
Galesburg and worked for the Chicago Daily News. In 1916 at age 38 his
'Chicago Poems' brought him to the brink of international critical
acclaim. |
http://carl-sandburg.com/chicago.htm Poem 'Chicago', from
'Chicago Poems'. http://carl-sandburg.com/passersby.htm Poem 'Passersby', from 'Chicago Poems'. http://www.uuwestport.com/Readings/SandFather.html Fatherhood Poem from 'the People Yes'. http://www.love-poems.me.uk/sandburg_carl_gypsy.htm Poem 'Gypsy' by Carl Sandburg. http://www.axtellfamily.org/axalbum/axhorse.html Prose excerpt from Sandburg autobiography 'Always the Young Strangers'. |
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