Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter

November 2007

Illinois Authors and Poets Welcome to the 10th issue of the Central Brooks Building to find out more go to Illinois Teaching with Primary http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/ Sources Newsletter, a collaborative departments/library/what_we_have/ project between the Teaching with Pri- illinois_authors/authors_building.html mary Sources Programs at Southern Illi- nois University Edwardsville and Eastern There are 35 names of Illinois authors Illinois University. etched on the building’s exterior fourth- floor frieze. In the Spotlight we provide a brief introduction to the author, a Library Illinois Authors and Poets are the fo- of Congress primary source if available as cus for the November 2007 issue. The well as other sites. Biographical para- Spotlight on Central Illinois looks at the graphs are based on text of the Illinois authors and their connection with Illinois. Authors on the Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois The inspiration for this topic came from State Library Building booklet and fea- Contents the Illinois State Library Gwendolyn Spotlight on Central tured sites. Illinois - Page 1 Topic Connections - Spotlight on Central Illinois Page 10 Lesson Plans and But of all the flowers in Illinois, in the Daily News, 1902-1933 http:// Activities - Page 11 field or meadow pond or by the rivulet memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/ What’s New at Under grassed hillock, the wood violet you will find photographs and printed ma- LOC.GOV - Page 13 By drifts of forest leaves concealed terial such as "The blue book" http:// User Tips - Page 13 Touches the heart’s blood deepest memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ Image Sources - Page nawbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1 14 with it hues Like a pale sky its scent half unrevealed: (rbnawsa+n4862)) a book about woman suffrage, The legend of the land it typifies, the history, arguments and results pioneer who sought the river woods including a chapter by Addams and struggled with harsh earth, un- and the Timeline of the Na- friendly skies tional Woman's Party http:// For life and beauty amid far solitudes Contact memory.loc.gov/ammem/ Edgar Lee Masters, Illinois Poems Information collections/suffrage/nwp/ brftime5.html. In 1931, Jane Amy Wilkinson Jane Addams: Addams was the first woman to re- [email protected] Born in Cedarville, Illinois in 1860, Jane ceive the Nobel Peace Prize. Younger stu- Addams was the founder and director of dents can learn about Jane Addams from Cindy Rich Hull House, a settlement house which the America's Library "Meet Amazing [email protected] provides human services to the Chicago Americans: Activists and Reformers http:// area. She wrote eleven books and nu- www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/ Editor merous articles of activists. Melissa Carr the events of Hull [email protected] House. Addams felt More on the Web: that women's voices Jane Addams Hull House Museum Binod Pokhrel should be heard by http://wall.aa.uic.edu:62730/artifact/ being given the right HullHouse.asp [email protected] to vote. In the Websites American Memory Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/ collection Photographs from the Chicago nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams- www.eiu.edu/~eiutps bio.html

www.siue.edu/ “The good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and education/aam how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.” Ernest Hemingway Central Illinois Page 2 Newsletter

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George Ade: writer and was quite successful. He is George Ade wrote the column Stories of mostly known for his collection Wines- the Streets and of the Town for burg, Ohio. Even though his short stories the Chicago Record Newspaper were very popular he wanted to write from 1890-1900. This column novels. His first successful novel was Poor was the inspiration for his nov- White. In the Portraits by els Artie, Pink Marsh and Doc Carl Van Vechten collec- Horne. His greatest success was tion you can find a por- Fables in Slang. George Ade trait of Sherwood Ander- also stretched his talent to play- son http://memory.loc.gov/ wright. The Library of Congress ammem/collections/ Prints and Photographs section vanvechten/. Information contains a the- about Anderson's influ- atrical poster of George ence on American writing Ade's The Sultan of Sulu between World War I and and many humorous illus- II is presented in the trated poems by George Jump Back in Time, Reconstruction area Ade and William of America's Library http:// Herschell. www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/ recon/anderson_1. More on the Web: Indiana Historical Society http:// More on the Web: www.indianahistory.org/pop_hist/people/ Sherwood Anderson Foundation http:// ade.html sherwoodandersonfoundation.org/

Purdue University-George Ade Papers Sherwood Anderson Festival http:// http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/digit/exhibits/ www.sherwoodandersonfestival.com/ ade/

MAP Paul Angle: Nelson Algren: Paul Angle was an authority on Abraham TITLE: Illinois Authors Nelson Algren graduated from the Chi- Lincoln and Illinois history. Angle became cago Public Schools and went on to the the Executive Secretary of the Abraham COLLECTION: Exhibit University of Illinois to study journalism. Lincoln Association in Springfield, he later Language of the Land Algren worked briefly for the W.P.A Illi- served as secretary of the Illinois State

nois Writer's Project. You can find a small Historical Society and director of the Chi- Zoom in on this map to portions of his work find authors from cago Historical Society. In 1929 Angle Central Illinois (including in the American exposed The Atlantic Monthly's published Charleston, Mattoon and Memory collection love letters between Lincoln and Ann Alton). America Life Histo- Rutledge as forgeries. Paul Angle's book ries: Manuscripts Here I Have Lived-A History of Lincoln's form the Federal Springfield gives an account of Lincoln 's Writers' Project, life before he became president. 1936-1940. He won the National Book Award in Fiction for his More on the Web: novel The Man with the Golden Arm. This Abraham Lincoln Association http:// novel was later turned into a movie star- abrahamlincolnassociation.org/history.htm ing Frank Sinatra. He later wrote the prose poem Chicago : City on the Make. L. Frank Baum: After failed attempts as a store owner, a Sherwood Anderson: newspaper editor and a stint in the thea- Sherwood Anderson became a part of tre, L. Frank Baum decided to move his what is known as the Chicago Literary family to Chicago at an attempt to estab- Renaissance. He moved to Chicago to lish himself. In 1900 The Wonderful Wiz- pursue his writing, he worked as a copy- ard of Oz was published to great success. Illinois Authors and Page 3 Poets

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L. Frank Baum Cont. vacate the land along the Rock River in You can view a digitized northwestern Illinois, a Sauk warrior version of the first edition named Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak led in the Rare Books collec- this raid. After becoming a prisoner, tions of the Library http:// Black Hawk, as he was known to the www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ white people, wrote his autobiography digitalcoll/digitalcoll- Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak in an children.html. Thirteen attempt to justify the cause of his peo- more Oz books would ple. The Library of Congress website follow. The Wizard of Oz has a review of Black Hawk's biography was produced in Chicago also images of Black as a musical play and a classic film star- Hawk alone and with ring Judy Garland. In the exhibits section other Native American of the Library of Congress website you warriors. The collec- will find an online exhibit The Wizard of tion Nineteenth Cen- Oz: An American Fairy Tale http:// tury in Print Periodi- www.loc.gov/exhibits/oz/. The hand-written cals offers a link to manuscript for Glinda of Oz, Baum's last the digital version of book is available in the American Treas- The New-England POSTER ures of the Library of Congress Imagina- magazine, Volume 6 tion Exhibit http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ and a portion of Black Hawks autobiog- TITLE: In March treasures/tri102.html. Be sure to visit both read the books raphy http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ the Literary Arts and Book Arts area. you’ve always meant ndlpcoop/moahtml/title/lists/ to read nwen_V6I5.html. More on the Web: COLLECTION: By Syracuse University : L. Frank Baum More on the Web: the People, for the http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/ Mount Holyoke : Black Hawk Sur- People: Posters from baum_lf.htm render Speech http:// the WPA, 1936-1943

www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/black.htm James Madison University: L. Frank CREATED/ Baum Teacher Resource Page http:// Illinois Historic Preservation PUBLISHED falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/baum.htm Chicago: Ill. Art Proj. http://www.blackhawkpark.org/ Agency (between 1936 and bhw.htm 1941) Saul Bellow:

Born in Canada Saul Bellow was raised in Ray Bradbury: Chicago. He was a faculty member at the Ray Bradbury has over 500 published University of Chicago. In 1975 Bellow won works including short stories, novels, the Pulitzer Prize for his book Humbolt's plays, and poems but he is best known Gift. Bellow was also awarded the Inter- as science-fiction writer. Some of his national Literary Prize for Herzog, he was works include The Martian Chronicles, the first American to win this prize. In Something Wicked this Way Comes and Voices from the Thirties: Life Histories Fahrenheit 451. His novel Dandelion from the Federal Writers' Project we learn Wine is a memoir of his boyhood in about Bellow and the other writers who Waukegan. References to Bradbury can went on to literary fame http:// be found in the American Women Popu- memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/ lar Culture Collection Pulp Fiction area exhome.html. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/ awser2/pulp_fiction.html and in various More on the Web: areas of the Center for the Book http:// Saul Bellow Society http:// www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/. www.saulbellow.org/

More on the Web: Black Hawk: Ray Bradbury http:// In a rebellion against the government www.raybradbury.com/

ordering the Sauk and Fox Indians to Page 4 Central Illinois Newsletter

Spotlight on Central Illinois Gwendolyn Brooks: novel Sister Carrie influenced by his Born in Topeka, Kansas but raised in Chi- childhood and hardships his family ex- cago, Gwendolyn Brooks was an author of perienced. His novels were censored more than twenty books of poetry. She was and sometime removed from store the first African-American to win the Pul- shelves. He later became famous for itzer Prize for Annie Allen supporting and battling for literary free- in 1950. She served as dom in America. Dreiser's spirited cor- Illinois Poet Laureate, respondence with Stuart Chase on the and Poet Laureate, and subject of consumer purchasing power Poet Laureate of the and corporate profits after Dreiser's Library of Congress Tragic America was published is avail- http://www.loc.gov/ able in the collection poetry/laureate-1981- Prosperity and 1990.html. Her work Thrift: The Coolidge expressed the experiences of Afri- Era and the con- can-Americans in Chicago. Her poem We sumer Economy, Real Cool was published on a poster which 1921-1929 http:// you can see on the Library's website http:// memory.loc.gov/cgi- memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? bin/query/r?ammem/ col- cool:@field lId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe33/ (NUMBER+@band rbpe339/33901800/ (mh05))::bibLink=r? rbpe33901800.db&recNum=0. ammem/coolbib%3A@field(NUMBER+@band (amrlm+mh05)). More on the Web: The Pulitzer Prize http:// More on the Web: www.pulitzer.org/ University of Pennsylvania : Dreiser WebSource http:// AUDIO University of Illinois : www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/ Modern American Po- dreiser/ TITLE: Lincoln's etry http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/ speech at Gettysburg a_f/brooks/brooks.htm The International Theodore Dreiser Society http://www.uncw.edu/dreiser/ COLLECTION: Emile index.htm Berliner and the Birth Cyrus Colter: of the Recording Cyrus Colter had a successful career as a Industry Chicago attorney and later as a commis- Finley Peter Dunne: Finley Peter Dunne was a Chicago jour- LINK: http:// sioner for the Illinois Commerce Commis- memory.loc.gov/cgi- sion. At the age of 50, Colter's first short nalist mostly noted for his humorous bin/query/r?ammem/ story was published. Ten years later his Mr. Dooley sketches. When he started berl:@field first collection of short stories was pub- out he covered sports and police courts (NUMBER+@band lished. This was followed by countless short then at the age of 21 he became city (berl+136012)) stories, poems and six novels. editor of the Chicago Times. Dunne started writing his Mr. Dooley sketches in Theodore Dreiser: 1892. The sketches The Library of Congress has photographs were later syndicated and letters from Theodore nationally and many Dreiser. He was born in were collected in books Terre Haute, Indiana in starting with Mr. Doo- 1871. His family life was ley in Peace and in War very unstable do to the and finishing with Mr. economic depression of the Dooley on Making a 1870's. By the time he was Will and other Necessary Evils. In the sixteen he had lived in five LOC you will find portraits of Dunne. different towns including Chicago. Dreiser wrote the Illinois Authors and Page 5 Poets

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Eliza Farnham: from Chicago as the heroines. Her most Farnham lived in Tazewell County Illinois famous work Showboat was made into a from 1836-1840. It is from these experi- Broadway musical and ences she wrote her novel Life in Prairie three motion pictures. Land. Throughout her life she was a advo- In the Traveling Cul- cate for prison reform. After leaving Illi- ture: Circuit Chautauua nois, she was appointed as matron of the in the 20th Century women's division of Sing Sing State has a talent circular for Prison. The Library of Congress has a re- Ferber. view of her novel Life in Prairie Land in the Nineteenth Century Periodical Collec- More on the Web: tion. Pulitzer Prize http:// www.pulitzer.org/

James T. Farrell: Jewish Virtual Library http:// Born in Chicago in 1904 most of his nov- www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ els and short stories focus on the working biography/ferber.html

class set in Chicago. Farrell wrote 25 nov- els, 17 collections of Henry Blake Fuller: short stories and many A novelist who wrote about his native books of non-fiction. He city, Chicago, was considered a leader of is best known for his Chicago literature in the 1890's. His novel masterpiece the Studs The Cliff-Dwellers is set among residents IMAGES Lonigan trilogy, a dev- of a Chicago skyscraper and is often con- astating account of the TITLE: On Honeymoon sidered as the first im- tragic life of its protago- Trip--Ernest M. portant American urban nist and one of the Hemingway, 41, noted novel. Many of his other author, and his 28- most powerful fictional treatments of the works were set in Chi- year-old bride, the Irish in America. The Prints and Photo- cago, On the Stairs, Ber- former Martha graph section of the LOC has photographs tams Cope's Year and Gellhorn, writer and of James T. Farrell. member of a prominent Under the Skylights. St. Louis family, start

More on the Web: their honeymoon trip More on the Web: University of Delaware Library: Gene from Cheyenne, Wyo., Dartmouth http:// Phillips Collection of James T. Farrell Nov. 22 for New York www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/friends/ City Papers http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/ fuller.html findaids/phillips.htm COLLECTION: Prints

Newberry Library http:// and Photographs University of Chicago Library: Guide www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/ to the James T. Farrell Papers http:// fuller/Fuller.html ead.lib.uchicago.edu/view.xqy? id=ICU.SPCL.FARRELL&c=f Hamlin Garland: Lecturer, teacher and author, Hamlin Gar- Edna Ferber: land became a major figure in the artistic Born in Michigan, raised in Wisconsin, development of the Chicago Renaissance. Ferber moved to Chicago to work as a The sequel to his ac- journalist at the Chicago Tribune. She claimed autobiography A won a Pulitzer Prize for Son of the Middle her novel So Big which Boarder, A Daughter of is set in New Holland an the Middle Boarder tells area south of Chicago. the story of his life in Her novels Buttered Chicago. This sequel won Side Down and Fanny him a Pulitzer Prize in Herself have strong 1922. The Nineteenth middle-class women Century Periodicals Collection on Page 6 Central Illinois Newsletter Spotlight on Central Illinois

Hamlin Garland Cont fame. After moving to Hollywood, Hecht the LOC has issues of the Atlantic Monthly wrote, co-wrote or magazine that gives reviews of Garland 's adapted some of the work. The Exhibit Language most successful mov- of the Land: Journeys into ies of the 1930's. You Literary America features can find images of Garland in a section titled Ben Hecht in The Chi- "Midwest". Within the Learn- cago Daily News Col- ing Page you can find a Col- lection of the Library lection Connection for Prairie of Congress. Settlement: Nebraska Photo- graphs and Family Letters, More on the Web: 1862-1912 which references United States Holocaust Memorial Main-Traveled Roads when teaching Museum http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/ Themes in Literature http:// article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007040 memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/ settlement/langarts1.html Ernest Hemingway: More on the Web: As you can see on the July 21 Today in The Hamlin Garland Society http:// History page http://memory.loc.gov/ www.uncwil.edu/garland/ ammem/today/jul21.html, Ernest Heming- VIDEO way was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He University of Southern California : The started his career as a writer for a Kan- TITLE: Scott Turow Hamlin Garland Collection http:// sas City newspaper at the age of sev-

www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/findingaids/ enteen. In 1954 Heming- COLLECTION: LOC garland/homestead.html Webcasts way won the Nobel Prize

in Literature. No other

LINK: http:// American writer is www.loc.gov/today/ more associated with Lorraine Hansberry: cyberlc/ writing about war in “I was born black and female” Lorraine feature_wdesc.php? the early 20th cen- Hansberry said, these factors would domi- rec=3957 tury than Heming- nate her work. She was born in Chicago . way. War was the Her father won an anti-segregation case backdrop for many of before the Illinois Supreme Court. Her play his books. Some of his best A Raisin in the Sun is known novels include The Sun Also based loosely on that Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom case. This was the first the Bell Tolls. Information about He- play by a black woman to mingway is presented in a format for be produced on Broad- younger students on America's Story way. In 1961 the film http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ version of A Raisin in the page.cgi/jb/progress/hemingwy_1. Sun won a special award

at the Cannes Film Fes- More on the Web: tival. The American Woman collection of Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/ the LOC has items pertaining to Lorraine nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/ Hansberry. hemingway-bio.html

More on the Web: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Lorraine Hansberry Theatre http:// and Museum: Hemingway Archive www.lorrainehansberrytheatre.com/ http://www.jfklibrary.org/ Historical+Resources/Hemingway+Archive

Ben Hecht: Ben Hecht started his literary career at the Chicago Daily News. His column, A Thou- sand and One Afternoons in Chicago was later turned into the book that brought him Illinois Authors and Page 7 Poets

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Robert Herrick: Abraham Lincoln: Author, professor and Government Secre- The America Memory collection Mr. Lin- tary for the Virgin Islands are some of the coln's Virtual Library has numerous letters accomplishments of Robert Herrick. Born written by Abraham Lincoln http:// in Massachusetts, he moved to Chicago memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html. where he accepted a position at the Uni- Some of his greatest speeches such as versity of Chicago. His Chicago novels in- the Farewell to Springfield http:// clude the Gospel of Freedom, The Web of memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? Life, The Common Lot, Memoirs of An collId=mal&fileName=mal1/072/0728000/ American Citizen and Chimes. malpage.db&recNum=0, The Gettysburg Address http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/ and his inaugural addresses http:// James Jones: www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt039.html an A native of Robinson, Illinois, Jones is best all be found in the Exhibits and Top known for his novel From Here to Eternity. Treasures of the Library of Congress. In The film version of From Here to Eternity addition to the treasures in the Lincoln was entered into the National Film Registry Papers Collection you will find My Child- http://www.loc.gov/film/. For his novel Some hood Home I See Again, a poem written Came Running, Jones drew upon his Illi- by Lincoln as well as on the Lincoln as a nois background. The Library of Congress Poet page http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/ has no items for James Jones. bib/prespoetry/al.html. You can also find letters between Lincoln and Jesse Fell More on the Web: where Lincoln gives some background for MANUSCRIPT James Jones Literary Society http:// his autobiography. A Collection Connec- rking.vinu.edu/j.htm tion features a section called Lincoln the TITLE: Letter, Ernest Writer with classroom application ideas Hemingway to Archi- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/ bald Macleish dis- cussing Ezra Pound’s Ring Lardner: collections/papers/langarts2.html. mental health and Ring Lardner was hired by the Chicago Ex- other literary mat- More on the Web: aminer in 1907 where he made a reputa- ters, 10 August tion as a sports writer and columnist. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (1943). While in Chicago he started a series of sto- and Museum http://www.alplm.org/ home.html ries about a baseball player named Jack COLLECTION:

Keefe. A Lardner quote on baseball player Words and Deeds in The White House http:// American History Walter Johnson is featured on today in His- www.whitehouse.gov/history tory: December 10. Later he also had suc- /presidents/al16.html cess as a playwright on Elmer the Great and June Moon. The Library has images of Lardner during the House Un-American Activities Committee investigations in Prints and Photographs. Lardner also wrote Vachel Lindsay: the lyrics for several songs including "Little Born in Springfield, Illinois; Vachel Lind- Puff of Smoke Goodnight" found in the Mu- say reformed American poetry. His poems sic Theater & Dance Division of the Li- such as General William Booth Enters into brary. Heaven and The Congo are strong and rhythmic often including music. Lindsay started out as an artist and many of his well known paintings are accompanied by a poem. He later returned to Springfield and resided in his childhood home until his death in 1931. Central Illinois Page 8 Newsletter

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Vachel Lindsay cont. Library you will find a photograph of a More on the Web: memorial to Norris. The Collection Con- Lanphier High Schoolhttp:// nection for Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/lanphier/ incorporates "The Octopus" http:// projects/lindsay/ memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/rr/file.html.

PBS: Thomas Hampson I Hear Amer-

ica Singing http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/ Donald Culross Peattie: poet/lindsay.html A native of Chicago, Peattie is best known Edgar Lee Masters: for his many nature books even though Edgar Lee Masters grew up in the farm- he did produce several works of fiction. land of western Illinois. Masters was a His books An Almanac for Moderns and A successful lawyer in Chicago and main- Prairie Grove both are set in Illinois. tained his practice while writing his po- ems. He is mostly known for Spoon River More on the Web: Anthology, a series of poems about his University of North Carolina http:// boyhood experiences in www.herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Peattie.htm

Illinois. The Exhibit Lan- guage of the Land: Jour- neys into Literary America Elia Wilkinson Peattie: features Illinois Poems by Elia Wilkinson Peattie was the first “girl Masters in a section titled reporter” for the Chicago Tribune. From "Midwest". 1901 to 1917 she was literary editor for the newspaper. Peattie published hun- More on the Web: dreds of short stories and 32 books. She University of Illinois: Modern Ameri- also wrote ghost stories for children, a can Poetry http://www.english.uiuc.edu/ series of children's books and poems. maps/poets/m_r/masters/masters.htm Some of her work includes The Precipice, SHEET MUSIC considered to be her best novel, Lotta Embury's Career and The Newcomers. TITLE: You are the ideal William Maxwell: The Library of Congress online catalog of my dreams. 1910 William Maxwell's early years were spent has books from Elia Wilkinson Peattie.

in Lincoln, Illinois later his father moved COLLECTION: Historic American Sheet Music , the family to Chicago. Maxwell worked as 1850-1920 an editor at the New Yorker from 1936 to Carl Sandburg: 1976. His novels, Bright Center of For years, Carl Sandburg worked for the WORDS AND MUSIC Heaven, They Came Like Swallows, The Chicago Daily News as a reporter. His BY: Herbert Ingraham Folded Leaf and So Long, See You Tomor- book Chicago Poems would bring Sand- Born in Aurora, Illinois row all revert back to his time in Illinois. burg international acclaim. He later be- came a biographer of Abraham Lincoln with his two volume Abraham Lincoln: Frank Norris: The Prairie Years. He later completed four At the age of 14, Frank Norris left his additional volumes home in Chicago where he was born and Abraham Lincoln: The went to San Francisco to live with his fa- War Years, for which ther. He went on to study at the Univer- he won the Pulitzer sity of California at Berkley and Harvard Prize in 1940. In 1951 University where his idea for his first he won a second Pulit- novel McTeague began. Norris was a zer Prize for Complete naturalist who in his novels, tries to de- Poems. American pict the impersonal so- Memory has an abun- cial and economic forces dant amount of items on individual lives. In pertaining to Carl Sandburg. There are the Prints and Photo- images, drawing of Sandburg's house and graph collection of the letters written to Sandburg. One issue of the loc.gov Wise Guide featured an Illinois Authors Page 9 and Poets

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Carl Sandburg cont. Louis Studs Terkel: article titled "The Poet and the Poem" with Terkel attended the University of Chicago an image of the author http://www.loc.gov/ earning a law degree. He chose not to wiseguide/dec04/poet.html. Sandburg is fea- pursue a career in law instead he went to tured in several American memory collec- work for the WPA Writers Project in the tions with photos in the Chicago Daily radio division. His television show Stud's News collection http://memory.loc.gov/ Place was where he started asking the ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html, kind of questions that marked his career drawings of his home in Built in America as an interviewer. In 1985 he won the http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ Pulitzer Prize for his book The Good War: habs_haer/index.html and letters in Free- An Oral History of World War II. Although dom's Fortress:The Library of Congress, Terkel worked for the WPA there are no 1939-1953 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ interviews in the LOC's American Life His- collections/freedoms_fortress/index.html. tories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writ-

ers' Project conducted by Terkel. More on the Web:

National Park Service http:// More on the Web: www.nps.gov/carl/ Studs Terkel http://www.studsterkel.org/ index.html

Upton Sinclair: The University of Chicago Law School Best known for his novel The Jungle which http://www.law.uchicago.edu/centennial/ history/essays/terkel.html is set in the Chicago meatpacking industry. This book launched a government investi- gation into the meatpacking plants in Chi- Richard Wright: cago and changed the food laws of Amer- Richard Wright moved to Chicago from ica. He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in Mississippi after he was offered the op- 1943 with his book Dragons Teeth about portunity to write for the Federal Writer's the rise of Nazism in Germany. His other Project. He first gained attention with Un- works include Oil, Boston and the 11 cle Tom's Children, a story about racial Lanny Budd novels. The Learning Page injustice but his novel Native Son made features a Collection Connection for Photo- him a major American novelist. The novel graphs from the Chicago Daily News, was turned into a play and also a film. 1902-1933 and an idea for a great class- Information about Wright is available in room activity built around The Jungle the Immigration feature of the Learning http://memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/ Page within the area focusing on African chicago/langarts3.html. The article and An Artistic Rebirth in the United "Revolution-Not Sex" by Upton appeared in States http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/ the journal New Masses which is available immig/alt/african8.html. in the Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge

Era and the Consumer Economy collection More on the Web: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? col- University of Illinois lId=amrlgs&fileName=nm1page.db&recNum=20 http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/ More on the Web: r_wright/r_wright.htm

Social Security http://www.ssa.gov/history/

sinclair.html

The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/ sinclair.html

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Topic Collections

Words and Deeds in American His- with many other famous authors. There is tory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ also a section on poets, playwrights and mcchtml/corhome.html journalist and publishers. In the Words and Deeds Collection you will find some of the nation's most influ- Collection Highlights: ential writers. The draft of Authors http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ Langston Hughes poem Ballad of collections/vanvechten/vvoccindx_auth.html Booker T, Walt Whitman's Cap- tain O Captain poem and Dedica- Poets http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ tion Robert Frost's poem for collections/vanvechten/vvoccindx_po.html President Kennedy's inauguration are just a few of the unique items in this collection. Poet at Work: The Walt Whitman Col-

lection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ Collection Highlights: collections/whitman/ Poetry And Fiction http:// This collection offers four of the Walt Whit- memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/ artbib.html#PFP man notebooks and the cardboard butter- fly that disappeared from the Library in Art and Literature http:// 1942, they were returned in memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/ February 1995. These papers artlithm.html span the periods from 1842 to 1937 with most items dated between 1855 and The Nineteenth Century in Print 1892. The collection contains http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ poetry, correspondence, moahtml/mnchome.html manuscripts and notebooks. The items in this collection date mainly At this time the collection is from 1850-1880. This collection is abun- not searchable but you can view the note- dant in poetry. Hamlin Garland's The books and see the cardboard butterfly. Trail of the Goldseekers; a Record of

Travel in Prose and Verse is available in Collection Highlights: this collection along with many other Whitman's Cardboard Butterfly http:// poets and their work. memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/ butterfly.html Collection Highlights: Collection Theme Poetry http:// LC's Missing Whitman Notes http:// memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/ memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/ mncsppoetry.html gazette1.html

Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Photographs from the Chicago Daily Van Vechten 1932-1964 http:// memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ News http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ vanvechten/ ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html These portraits by American photogra- There are over 55,000 images in this col- pher Carl Van Vechten consist of studio lection most were taken portraits of people in Chicago or nearby involved in the arts. towns. It contains many This collection con- images of authors and tains portraits of Illi- poets. Some are studio nois authors Sher- portraits others are wood Anderson, Theo- more informal. There dore Dreiser and Rich- are images of George ard Wright along Ade, Carl Sandburg, and Eugene Field, an Illinois poet.

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Learning Page: December 24, 1822; Clement Moore Community Center-Literature and http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ Poetry (contains a primary set) page.cgi/jb/nation/moore_1 http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/ cc_literature.php February 7, 1867; Laura Ingalls Wilder http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ Lesson Plans: page.cgi/jb/recon/ingalls_1 Enhancing a Poetry Unit (Grades 7th-9th) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ February 9, 1888 Walt Whitman http:// lesson/98/poetry/poem.html www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/ gilded/whitman_1 1900 American: Historical Voices, January 19, 1809 Edgar Allan Poe Poetic Visions (Grades 10th-12th) http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/00/ page.cgi/jb/nation/poe_1 voices/index.html

January 20, 1961 Robert Frost http:// Murder and Mayhem-The Great www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/jb_date.cgi? Gatsby: Fact behind the Fiction month=01&day=20&x=11&y=10 (Grade 11) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ lessons/01/mayhem July 12, 1817 Henry David Thoreau http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ The Grapes of Wrath (Grades 9th- page.cgi/jb/nation/thoreau_1 12th) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ lessons/01/grapes/index.html July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway http:// www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/ To Kill a Mockingbird (Grades 7th- progress/hemingwy_1 12th) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ lessons/98/mock/into.html September 24, 1896 F. Scott Fitzger- ald http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ Twain’s Hannibal (Grades 9-12) page.cgi/jb/progress/fitzgrld_1 http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/ twain/intro.html September 25, 1897 William Faulkner http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ America’s Library page.cgi/jb/progress/faulkner_1 Meet Amazing Americans: Langston Hughes http:// Exhibitions: www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/ A Century of Creativity http:// writers/hughes www.loc.gov/exhibits/macdowell/

Dorothea Lange http:// Heavenly Craft http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/ heavenlycraft/ writers/lange Language of the Land http://www.loc.gov/ Mark Twain http:// exhibits/land/landintr.html www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/ writers/twain Walt Whitman and the Leaves of Grass http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/whitman- Jump Back in Time: home.html April 17, 1897; Thornton Wilder http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy- page.cgi/jb/progress/wilder_1 tale http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/oz/

April 3, 1837; John Burroughs http:// America’s First Book http://www.loc.gov/ www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/ exhibits/treasures/trm004.html reform/burroughs_1 Anne Bradstreet, Colonial Poet http:// August 2, 1924; James Baldwin www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri110.html http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ page.cgi/jb/jazz/baldwin_1 Children’s Books http://www.loc.gov/ exhibits/treasures/tri057.html Illinois Authors Page 12 and Poets

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Exhibits Cont. June 5, Uncle Tom’s Cabin http:// Literary Arts http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun05.html treasures/tr33b.html#lit July 21, Ernest Hemingway http:// The Grapes of Wrath http://www.loc.gov/ memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul21.html exhibits/treasures/trm143.html Search Terms: Walt Whitman and the Civil War http:// • Authors • Poets www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm074.html • Books • Literature Popular Literature http://www.loc.gov/ • Fiction • Poems exhibits/treasures/tr33b.html#poplit • Playwright • Fable

Stories Biography Webcasts: • •

Langston Hughes and his Poetry http://www.loc.gov/rr.program/journey/ Other Activities and Presentations: hughes.html American Life in Poetry http:// www.americanlifeinpoetry.org Native American Women Writers Dis- cuss New Book, Sister Nations http:// The Source (Great for Elementary) www.loc.gov/locvideo/native/ http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/ am_newsletter/article.php? id=39&catname=teaching%20ideas Poet Vision http://www.loc.gov/poetry/

poetvision.html Favorite Poem Project http:// www.favorite poem.org Poetry Webcasts http://www.loc.gov/

poetry/cyberspoet.html Letters about Literature http:// www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/letters.html Poet and the Poem http://www.loc.gov/

poetpoem.html Lifelong Literacy http://www.loc.gov/ Wiseguide: literacy/

Shakespeare and Genius http:// Poetry 180 http://www.loc.gov/ www.loc.gov/wiseguide/oct03/ poetry/180/ shakespeare.html

Poetry and Literature Center http:// Rediscovering an American Play- www.loc.gov/poetry/ wright http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/jan04/ zora.html Presidents as Poets http://www.loc.gov/

rr/program/bib/prespoetry/index.html Today in History: February 8, Jules Verne http:// The Source Found Poetry http:// memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb08.html memory.loc.gov/learn/community/ am_newsletter/article.php? September 6, Jane Addams http:// id=40&catnamme=teaching%20ideas memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep06.html Harlem Renaissance http:// September 25, William Faulkner memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/ aopart7b.html sep25.html Literature of the Spanish-American September 13, Sherwood Anderson War http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/ literature.html sep13.html Professional Development: Making a May 15, L. Frank Baum http:// Statement through Song and Poetry memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may15.html http://www.loc.gov/creativity/hampson/ workshop/index.html Illinois Authors Page 13 and Poets

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World Digital Library: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and UNESCO Assistant Director for Commu- nication and Information Abdul Waheed Khan signed an agreement at UNESCO head- quarters in Paris pledging cooperative efforts to build a World Digital Library Web site.

The World Digital Library will digitize unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world and make them available for free on the Internet. These materials will include manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs. The objectives of the World Digital Library include promoting international and intercultural understanding, increasing the quantity and diversity of cultural materials on the Internet, and contributing to educa- tion and scholarship.

Poets from MacDowell Colony To Read on Nov. 8 In celebration of The MacDowell Colony’s 100th anniversary, three poets will read from their works and from the poetry of three U.S. Poet Laureates, all alumni of the famous writers’ and artists’ residency workshop in New Hampshire.

Founded in 1907, The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., was the first artists’ residency program in America and is the model for hundreds of others. The vision of founders Edward McDowell and his wife Marian, both pianists, was to provide artists of exceptional talent with uninterrupted time, a private workplace and a dynamic com- munity of peers to inspire creativity and excellence. To date, the colony has awarded fellowships to more than 6,000 writers, visual artists, composers, playwrights, film- makers, architects and interdisciplinary artists. In 1997, The MacDowell Colony was awarded the National Medal of Arts for nurturing and inspiring many of the 20th cen- tury’s finest artists. Papers and items relating to the colony’s founding are part of the Library of Congress collections. The Library organized a MacDowell Colony exhibition earlier this year: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/macdowell/highlights/. Text from Library News

Tech Tip Instant Poetry The Educational Technology Training Center website has a great section on creating poetry http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm . This site provides interactive forms for students to create instant poetry just by filling in the blanks. The site con- tains a poetry finder where you can create a certain type of poem and lesson plan ideas for you to use in class.

Technology Tips for Poetry The Writing Site has great ideas on integrating technology into poetry http:// www.thewritingsite.org/resources/technology/poetrysites.asp. There are many great links that your class can use. There are also links at the bottom for using other technolo- gies in your class. Some of these links are organized by primary or secondary levels.

Did you see that Poem Education World website shares an idea for creating a video poetry project with your students http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech142.shtml. It gives you tips on how to start your project to what equipment you will need. Page 14 Central Illinois Newsletter

Item Sources

Library of Congress "Autumn," poem by Helen Keller, 27 October 1893. Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Divi- sion’s First 100 Years

The Library of Congress The trail of the goldseekers; a record of travel in prose and verse, by Hamlin Garland The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books

The Library of Congress Portrait of Theodore Dreiser Portraits by Carl Van Vechten

The Library of Congress Walt Whitman, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, wearing hat and sweater, holding butterfly Prints and Photographs

The Library of Congress Sherwood Anderson, author Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

Library of Congress Joys of the trail, prairie song, and western story the red pioneer, and other lectures : by Hamilin Garland. Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

Library of Congress Edna Ferber Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

Library of Congress Life in Prairie Land By Eliza W. Farnham. [The United States Democratic review. / Vol- ume 19, Issue 97, July 1846 The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals

Library of Congress Portrait of Richard Wright Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Anne Rutledge / [words by] Edgar Lee Masters ; music for voice and piano by Sam Raphling. “We’ll Sing to Abe our Song!”: Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolnian

Library of Congress Ernest Hemingway Prints and Photographs Illinois Authors Page 15 and Poets

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Library of Congress Jane Addams, photomechanical print and caption Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks 1897-1911

Library of Congress Jane Addams on Suffrage Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks 1897-1911

Library of Congress Photograph of George Ade, author Created 1908 Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

Library of Congress Illinois Authors (Map) Exhibit Language of the Land Journey into Literary America

Library of Congress H.W. Savage presents The sultan of Sulu by George Ade. Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Nelson Algren, author, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, under bridge(?) Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Portrait of Sherwood Anderson Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress L. Frank Baum, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left] / F.S. & M.V. Fox, Chicago, Ill Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Mac-cut-i-mish-e-ca-cu-cac or Black Hawk, a celebrated Sac chief / painted from life by J.O. Lewis at Detroit, 1833 ; Lehman & Duval lithrs Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Gwendolyn Brooks, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, holding her book, "A street in Bronzeville Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress We real cool / by Gwendolyn Brooks. Detroit, Michigan : Broadside Press, 1966. An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephem- era Central Illinois Page 16 Newsletter

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Library of Congress Theodore Dreiser, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Stuart Chase Papers. Theodore Dreiser and Stuart Chase Correspondence on the Sub- ject of Consumer Purchasing Power and Corporate Profits. Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Library of Congress Finley Peter Dunne, bust Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress James T. Farrell, half-length portrait, seated, reading, facing slightly left Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress In March read the books you've always meant to read Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Dinner at Eight Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Henry B. Fuller: The Cliff Dwellers. [The Atlantic monthly. / Volume 73, Issue 438, April 1894 The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals

Library of Congress Hamlin Garland, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] / Pirie MacDonald, photog- rapher of men, New York. Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Carl Sandburg and Lew Sarett : a joint lecture and recital. Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

Library of Congress The jungle by Upton Sinclair Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Upton Sinclair, three-quarter length portrait, seated on desk, facing front Prints and Photographs

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Library of Congress Lorraine Hansberry, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Ben Hecht, Chicago Daily News correspondent, facing the right of the image Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

Library of Congress The University Of Chicago. [Scribner's magazine. / Volume 18, Issue 4, October, 1895] The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals

Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln: President-elect Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress On Honeymoon Trip--Ernest M. Hemingway, 41, noted author, and his 28-year- old bride, the former Martha Gellhorn, Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Nicholas Vachel Lindsay and Olive Lindsay Wakefield. Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

Library of Congress William Maxwell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] / photo by Kirk Wil- kinson Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Photograph of Frank Norris Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress Profile photograph of Carl Sandburg Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

Library of Congress Letter, Ernest Hemingway to Archibald MacLeish discussing Ezra Pound's mental health and other literary matters, 10 August [1943]. Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Divisions First 100 Years

Library of Congress You are the ideal of my dreams. 1910 Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920 “I am sure that anything we can do to widen the circle of enlightenment and self-development is quite as rewarding to those who do it as to those for who it is done.” Jane Addams

“To the tale-teller, you must understand, the telling of the tale is the cutting of the natal cord. When the tale is told it exists outside oneself, and often it is more living than the liv- “Without libraries what have we? ing man from whom it came.” Sherwood Anderson We have no past and no future.” Ray Bradbury

“A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelop big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a tempta- tion to the editor.” Ring Lardner

“I myself am a wide reader, a consumer of many books. I grew up that way.” Saul Bellow “It has been my accidental reading of fiction and liter- ary criticism that “Poetry is the journal had evoked in me of a sea animal living “A reader is a critic with a very fine and important job—to please himself. It vague glimpse of on land, wanting to fly is, however, his job, not mine. life’s possibilities.” in the air. Poetry is a Ben Hecht Richard Wright search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script tell- ing how rainbows are “The written word holds, oh so much of wonderful import— here in these little books of mine shines gold of every sort.” made and why they go Gwendolyn Brooks away.” Carl Sandburg