Here are the authors, and their best-known works, whose names are engraved on the writers wing of the new Illinois State Library:
Jane Addams (1860-1935) ”Twenty Years at Hull House”
George Ade (1866-1944) ”Fables in Slang”
Nelson Algren (1909-1981) ”The Man With the Golden Arm”
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) ”Winesburg, Ohio”
Paul Angle (1900-1975) ”Bloody Williamson”
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) ”The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”
Saul Bellow (1915- ) ”Humboldt`s Gift”
Black Hawk (1767-1838) ”Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak”
Ray Bradbury (1920- ) ”The Martian Chronicles”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) ”Maud Martha”
Cyrus Colter (1910- ) ”The Rivers of Eros”
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) ”Sister Carrie”
Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) ”Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War”
Eliza Farnham (1815-1864) ”Life in Prairie Land”
James T. Farrell (1904-1979) ”Studs Lonigan”
Edna Ferber (1887-1968) ”So Big”
Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929) ”The Cliff-Dwellers”
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) ”Rose of Dutcher`s Coolly”
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) ”A Raisin in the Sun”
Ben Hecht (1894-1964) ”The Front Page” (co-author)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) ”A Farewell to Arms”
Robert Herrick (1868-1938) ”The Gospel of Freedom”
James Jones (1921-1977) ”From Here to Eternity”
Ring Lardner (1885-1933) ”You Know Me, Al”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) ”Gettysburg Address”
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) ”General William Booth Enters Into Heaven”
Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) ”Spoon River Anthology”
William Maxwell (1908- ) ”So Long, See You Tomorrow”
Frank Norris (1870-1902) ”The Pit”
Donald Culross Peattie (1898-1964) ”A Prairie Grove”
Elia Peattie (1862-1935) ”The Precipice”
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) ”Abraham Lincoln”
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) ”The Jungle”
Studs Terkel (1912- ) ”Working”
Richard Wright (1908-1960) ”Native Son”
