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    Ben Hecht
    A child of the century; Gargoyles; Miss lonelyhearts...
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    James Jones
    Some came running; From here to eternity; The merry month of May...
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    Studs Terkel
    American dreams, lost and found; Chicago; Giants of jazz...
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Lee Li-Young

Born: Jakarta, Indonesia
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: N/A

Biography: N/A

Awards:
  • Delmore Schwartz Award, The Rose, 1986. The I.B. Lavin Award, 1986, Lamont Award 1990, The City in Which I Love You, and American Book Award, 1995, The Winged Seed.

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Lee Li-Young on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=lee+li-young

Selected Titles

  Rose.
ISBN: 9781938160547 OCLC: 866440353

BOA Editions Ltd., New York : 2013.

Winner of the 1990 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award.

 

 

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