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The names of 35 distinguished Illinois authors are etched into the 4th floor frieze of the Illinois State Library Building.

  • Portait of Hamlin Garland
    Hamlin Garland
    A member of the third house; Boy life on the prairie; Cavanagh, forest ranger...
  • Portait of Edgar Lee Masters
    Edgar Lee Masters
    Spoon River Anthology; Domesday book; Mark Twain: A portrait...
  • Portait of William Maxwell
    William Maxwell
    All the days and nights; The chateau; They came like swallows...
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Benjamin Nick Colby

Born: 1931 in Evanston, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Born in Illinois.

Biography: Benjamin colby is Professor Emeritus, in the Anthropology School of Social Sciences at the University of California.

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

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: bncolby@uci.edu
Website: http://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/DetailDept.CFM?ID=2607
Benjamin Nick Colby on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=benjamin+nick+colby

Selected Titles

  Ixil country :
ISBN: 0520015150 OCLC: 150690906

University of California Press, Berkeley : 1969.

The daykeeper, the life and discourse of an Ixil diviner /
ISBN: 0674194098 OCLC: 7197630

 

 

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