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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 James Jones
    James Jones
    Some came running; From here to eternity; The merry month of May...
  • Portait of William Maxwell
    William Maxwell
    All the days and nights; The chateau; They came like swallows...
  • Portait of Frank Norris
    Frank Norris
    McTeague; A man's woman; Octopus...
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Fanny Butcher

Born: September 13, 1888 in Fredonia, Kansas
Pen Name:

Connection to Illinois: Butcher's family moved to Chicago when she was 3-years-old. She attended Lewis Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) and graduated from the University of Chicago.

Biography: Fanny Butcher was a long time writer and literary critic for the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

Awards:
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  • -- Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, 2016

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Web: https://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Butcher.xml
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Butcher
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Fanny++Butcher

Selected Titles

Many Lives - One Love
ISBN: 0060105895 OCLC:

Harper & Row 1972

 

 

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