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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 T. Farrell
    James T. Farrell
    Father and Son; Studs Lonnigan; The Death of Nora Ryan...
  • Portait of Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury
    R is For Rocket; A Medicine for Melancholy; Fahrenheit 451...
  • Portait of Robert Herrick
    Robert Herrick
    An anatomy of literature; Clark's Field; The web of life...
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Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner

Born:
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Biography: Baumgaertner is a scholar, administrator, literary critic, and poet. Currently, she's the Professor of English Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies at Wheaton College.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Email: jill.baumgaertner@wheaton.edu
Website: http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Departments/English/Faculty/Jill-Pelaez-Baumgaertner
Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=jill+pelaez+baumgaertner

Selected Titles

Flannery O'Connor :
ISBN: 0940895382 OCLC: 39733515

Cornerstone Press Chicago, Chicago : ©1999.

 

 

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