Barbara Michaels
Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, ... [... more]
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Michael Berube
Michael Berube is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and in 1994 was named University Scholar. He is the author of three other books, and has written for many academic journals a When Jamie Bérubé was [... more]
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Olga Soffer
Olga Soffer, formerly a fashion industry insider, is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. [... more]
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Dan Hooper
Dan Hooper is a fellow in the theoretical astrophysics group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, where he investigates dark matter, supersymmetry, neutrinos, extra dimensions, and cosmic rays. Originally from Cold ... [... more]
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Ben Joravsky
Co-author of Race and Politics in Chicago,he is a resident of Chicago, Illinois. [... more]
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Reginald Hudlin
This scathingly hilarious political satire-produced from a collaboration of three of our funniest humorists-answers the burning question: Would anyone care if East St. Louis seceded from the Union? East St. Louis, Illinois ("the inner city ... [... more]
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Brian Hodge
hails from Illinois and now lives in Boulder, Colorado. Brian Hodge [... more]
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Jill Gregory
Jill Gregory grew up in Chicago and received her B.A. in English from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. She now lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with her husband, her daughter, and their Yorkshire terrier. Jill Gregory is the author ... [... more]
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Steve Bogira
Steve Bogira graduated from Northwestern University and has been a prize winning writer for the Chicago Reader since 1981. He is a former Alicia Patterson Fellow. He lives with his wife in Evanston, Illinois. Steve Bogira's riveting book takes us ... [... more]
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Carolyn Crimi
Carolyn Crimi was born and raised on Long Island, New York, and now lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband Alfonso, and their two cats, Oscar and Mama. Carolyn received her B.A. from Lake Forest College. The author of several previous ... [... more]
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Jack Coombe
Jack D. Coombe is the author of , which was nominated for the Fletcher Pratt Award. He and his wife, Peg, live in Northbrook, Illinois. , the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous ... [... more]
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Paula Polk Lillard
Paula Polk Lillard and her daughter, Lynn Lillard Jessen, co-founded the Forest Bluff School in Lake Bluff, Illinois, a Montessori school for children through the eighth grade. Paula is the principal of the school, and she and Lynn teach the ... [... more]
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