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    Nelson Algren
    America Eats; Chicago, City on the Make; Somebody in Boots...
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    Eliza Farnham
    California, in-doors and out; My early days; Ideal attained...
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    Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address; The Language of Liberty; The Gettysburg Address...
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Daniel Cleary

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Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Cleary lives in Chicago.

Biography: Daniel Cleary, from County Tipperary, Ireland, came to Chicago over 30 years ago. He is known for lyric poetry and a golden singing voice. Daniel began writing while studying painting at the Camberwell School of Art in London. The people and the world around him inspire both poems and paintings.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Daniel Cleary on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=daniel++cleary

Selected Titles

Elegy for James Gerard and Other Poems for the Larger Voice
ISBN: 1933126213 OCLC:

Fractal Edge Press 2005

 

 

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