Literature
Early writers associated with Chicago include, Eugene Field, Theodore Drieser, Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, and Edgar Lee Masters. Poets have included Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks. Other notable writers often associated with the city's literary tradition, include Saul Bellow, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, James T. Farrell, John Dos Passos, Nelson Algren, Upton Sinclair, Ernest Hemingway and Loraine Hansberry.
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“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man’s family.”
—J.M. (John Millington)
“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure—pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)