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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 Lorraine Hansberry
    Lorraine Hansberry
    A Raisin in the Sun; To Be Young, Gifted, and Black; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window...
  • Portait of Eliza Farnham
    Eliza Farnham
    California, in-doors and out; My early days; Ideal attained...
  • Portait of Robert Herrick
    Robert Herrick
    An anatomy of literature; Clark's Field; The web of life...
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Charless Caraway

Born: 1888 in Raleigh, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Charless was born and raised in Raleigh in Saline County. He lived in Southern Illinois his entire life.

Biography: Charless was a farmer in Makanda and Murphysboro, Illinois from 1910 through 1971.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Charless Caraway on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=charless+caraway

Selected Titles

  Foothold on a hillside :
ISBN: 0585316864 OCLC: 45733341

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Ill. : ©1986.

 

 

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