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    George Ade
    Ade's Fables; In pastures New; Pink Marsh...
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    Eliza Farnham
    California, in-doors and out; My early days; Ideal attained...
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    Vachel Lindsay
    Selected poems of Vachel Lindsay; Daniel jazz and other poems; General William Booth Enters into Heaven...
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Melissa Fraterrigo

Born: in Hammond, Indiana
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Fraterrigo is a life long resident of Illinois. She currently resides in Evergreen Park.

Biography: Fraterrigo is a graduate of Bowling Green State University’s MFA program in creative writing.

Awards:
  • Nominated, Fountain Award, Speculative Literature Foundation Spring 2004 Pushcart Award Nomination for ''The Shark Swimmers'' by Arts and Letters, Winter 2002 Winner of the Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing from Carolina Quarterly Tartt Fi

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Children; Young adult readers

Email: mgraterrigo@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.melissafraterrigo.com
Melissa Fraterrigo on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=melissa++fraterrigo

Selected Titles

The longest pregnancy /
ISBN: 0930501276 OCLC: 66280060

Swallows Tale Press at the University of West Alabama, [Livingston, Ala.] : 2006.

 

 

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