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The names of 35 distinguished Illinois authors are etched into the 4th floor frieze of the Illinois State Library Building.

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    Lorraine Hansberry
    A Raisin in the Sun; To Be Young, Gifted, and Black; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window...
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    Nelson Algren
    America Eats; Chicago, City on the Make; Somebody in Boots...
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    Cyrus Colter
    City of light; The Hippodrome; The rivers of Eros...
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Joanie Mackowski

Born: 1963 in Evanston, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Mackowski was born in Evanston, Illinois.

Biography: In addition to her two books of poems, Joanie is of the Creative Writing Program faculty at Cornell University, she lives in Ithaca, New York.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Joanie Mackowski on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=joanie+mackowski

Selected Titles

The zoo /
ISBN: 082295768X OCLC: 645882603

University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. : ©2002.

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ISBN: 9780822960553 OCLC: 835768646

University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. : ©2010.

 

 

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