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Herman Kogan

Born: 1914 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: 1989 in New Buffalo, Berrien County, Michigan

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Kogan was a life long Chicagoan, and the father of Rick Kogan.

Biography: Herman Kogan was a reporter who spent 50 years covering Chicago, many with the Chicago Sun-Times.

Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): History; Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Herman Kogan on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=herman++kogan+

Selected Titles

A continuing marvel;
ISBN: 038502259X OCLC: 668164

Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1973.

Traditions and challenges :
ISBN: 096125940X OCLC: 10267410
Yesterday's Chicago /
ISBN: 0912458658 OCLC: 2121714

E.A. Seemann Pub., Miami : [foreword 1976]

 

 

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