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    George Ade
    Ade's Fables; In pastures New; Pink Marsh...
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    Carl Sandburg
    A patriot's handbook; Chicago Poems; Harvest poems, 1910-1960...
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    Studs Terkel
    American dreams, lost and found; Chicago; Giants of jazz...
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Art Reid

Born: 1927 Urbana, Il.
Died: 2005 in Spokane, Wash.

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Reid has a column in the Southern Illinoisan.

Biography: Art Reid is a naturalist and local historian.

Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Art Reid on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=art+reid

Selected Titles

Fishing southern Illinois /
ISBN: 0809312948 OCLC: 13218546

 

 

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