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    James T. Farrell
    Father and Son; Studs Lonnigan; The Death of Nora Ryan...
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    Abraham Lincoln
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    Studs Terkel
    American dreams, lost and found; Chicago; Giants of jazz...
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Jane Cushing

Born: 1922 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Sister Jane Cushing lived most of her life in Illinois.

Biography: Jane was a Roman Catholic religious in the order of Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM). She was during her career and elementary teacher in both Chicago and Phoenix, Az. She returned to Chicago and taught at Loretto Academy, and at the College of DuPage.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Young Adult

Jane Cushing on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=jane++cushing

Selected Titles

  101 films for character growth.
ISBN: 0819005002 OCLC: 24231

Fides Publishers Notre Dame, Ind., [1969]

 

 

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