Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren

male, deceased (1981) (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Jewish, Somebody in Boots, novelist, judaism, writer, Jewish American…Chicago culture, Chicagowriter, Neighborhoods of Chicago, from Chicago, Michigan writer
Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981) was an American writer.
Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

male, deceased (2005) (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Solomon Bellows, Russian-American, Canadian of Russian descent, From Montreal, Canadian, Former Trotskyist…writer, University of Chicago alumni, University of Chicago faculty, Chicagowriter, Short story writer
Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed...
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

male, deceased (1967)
From Elmhurst, Illinois, from Chicago, writer, House of Vasa, Grammy Award winner, historian…Wisconsin writer, Chicagowriter
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist. He was born in...
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

male, deceased (1961)
writer, war correspondent, the old man and the sea, pulitzer prize, Short story writer, Short Story Author…from Chicago, Chicagowriter, Non-fiction writer, short-story writer
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part...
Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks

female, deceased (2000)
American Poet Laureate, From Topeka, Kansas, writer, Illinois writer, Chicagowriter, from Chicago
Gwendolyn Brooks was an award-winning African American woman poet.
Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky

female, 62 years old
from Chicago, writer, Crime fiction writer, University of Kansas alumni, Detective fiction, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business…Chicago Cubs, Kansas writer, Iowa writer, Chicagowriter, mystery writer
Sara Paretsky (b. June 8, 1947 in Ames, Iowa) is a contemporary American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas. She graduated...
Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon

male, 45 years old
from Chicago, novelist, English, macarthur foundation, From Sarajevo, University of Sarajevo…writer, Chicagowriter, Short story writer
Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964) is a Bosnian fiction writer living in the United States. Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, to a father of...
Mike Royko

Mike Royko

male, deceased (1997)
Michael "Mike" Royko, Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winner, from Chicago, writer, Chicagowriter, journalist…chicago tribune, Chicago Cubs
Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 - April 29, 1997) was a longtime newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois.
Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward

male, 66 years old
writer, newspaper reporter, Investigative reporter, washington post, investigative journalism, Worth Bingham Prize recipient…Washington, D.C. writer, Chicagowriter, from Chicago
Robert "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is assistant managing editor of "The Washington Post". While an investigative reporter for that...