The Chicago Sun Times Books Sunday, April 18, 2010, featured "The City of Big Writers" by Mike Thomas. Currently, there are efforts underway to create a Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. It will honor Chicago-connected living and dead literary giants. A panel of 18 Chicago writers chose 27 writers as nominees, and a panel of 5 will choose a final six. They will be inducted on May 1 during a benefit at Sanfilippo Estate in Barrington Hills. Tickets are $55 for Chicago Writers Association members and $65 for nonmembers, www.chicagoliteraryhof.org.
The nominees are: Jane Addams, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Oscar Brown Jr., Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Callaway, Cyrus Colter, Theodore Dreiser, James T. Farrell, Edna Ferber, Leon Forrest, Lorraine Hansberry, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Fenton Johnson, Norman MacLean, Edgar Lee Masters, Harriet Monroe, Franklin Rosemont, Mike Royko, Carl Sandburg, Shel Silverstein, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright. Who would you choose?
Thursday, April 22, 2010
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