Kenan Heise
Born: 1933 in Ferndale, Michigan
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Kenan Heise lived in Evanston, Illinois Biography: Kenan Heise is an award winning journalist, poet, and historian. He was a staff writer and reporter for the Chicago Tribune for thirty-four years. He was also proprietor of ''Chicago Historical Bookworks'' in Evanston from 1985 until he closed the store in 2002.
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Selected Titles
| Alphonse : ISBN: 092477200X OCLC: 20878762 Chicago Historical Bookworks, Evanston, IL : ©1989. |
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Aunt Ella stories / ISBN: 0897331400 OCLC: 12353494 Academy Chicago, Chicago, Ill. : 1985. |
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Chaos, creativity, and culture : ISBN: 0879050543 OCLC: 37755249 Gibbs Smith Publisher, Salt Lake City : [1998] In this groundbreaking anthology, award-winning author Kenan Heise profiles the remarkable contributions of the many creative people, born out of 20th-century Chicago's chaos. Among those profiled are Frank Lloyd Wright, Upton Sinclair, Edna Ferber, Studs Terkel, Louis Armstrong, Lorraine Hansberry, Carl Sandburg, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. 100 photos. |
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Chicago afternoons with Leon : ISBN: 9781434347374 OCLC: 190867462 AuthorHouse, [Bloomington, Ind.] : 2007. |
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Chicago originals : ISBN: 1566250331 OCLC: 32051845 Bonus Books, Chicago : ©1995. Examines various influential or notable figures from Chicago's history, including athletes, politicians, gangsters, artists, and more, organized by decade from the 1830s through the 1990s. |
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Chicago the beautiful : ISBN: 1566251648 OCLC: 48446255 Bonus Books, Chicago : ©2001. |
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Chicago, center for enterprise : ISBN: 0897810414 OCLC: 8785877 Windsor Publications, Woodland Hills, Calif. : 1982. |
| Clarence Darrow in hell : ISBN: 0924772204 OCLC: 28917272 Chicago Historical Bookworks, Evanston, IL : ©1993. Dan Heise is an ETHS alumnus, class of 1986. |
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Hands on Chicago / ISBN: 0933893280 OCLC: 15496892 Bonus Books, Chicago : ©1987. Provides brief entries about Chicago history, characters, architecture, and places; also serves as a guide book. |
| How to survive in Chicago and enjoy it / ISBN: 0517517787 OCLC: 1103349 Barre Pub. : New York : [1975] |
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Is there only one Chicago? ISBN: 0878580344 OCLC: 636517 Westover Pub. Co. Richmond, Va.] [1973] |
| Our dinosaurs are dying : ISBN: 0924772263 OCLC: 31443348 Chicago Historical Bookworks, Evanston, IL : ©1994. |
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Resurrection Mary : ISBN: 0924772093 OCLC: 23246386 Chicago Historical Bookworks, Chicago, Ill. : ©1990. |
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Tales from an urban wilderness / ISBN: 0924772255 OCLC: 31213395 Chicago Historical Bookworks, Evanston, Il. : 1994. |
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The Chicagoization of America, 1893-1917 / ISBN: 0924772018 OCLC: 21234033 Chicago Historical Bookworks, Evanston, IL : ©1990. |
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The death of Christmas : ISBN: 0695802747 OCLC: 6511367 [Follett Pub. Co.], [Chicago] : 1971. |
| The journey of Silas P. Bigelow / ISBN: 0938728008 OCLC: 7472319 Collage, Wheeling, Ill. : ©1981. |
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| The Sandburg shelf : ISBN: 0924772239 OCLC: 28886956 Chicago Historical Bookworks, Evanston, Ill. : 1993. |