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Leonard Dubkin

Born: 1905 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: 1972 in Chicago

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Dubkin lived and worked in the Chicago area all of his life. There is a small quarter acre park located along Ashland Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago named after him.

Biography: Leonard Dubkin was an urban naturalist and Chicago writer who immersed himself in Chicago’s natural history. He wrote several books on nature in the city, wrote a widely read nature column for Lerner Newspapers in Chicago for many years, and published frequently in major national newspapers Chicago Tribune and New York Times.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Leonard Dubkin on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=leonard+dubkin


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