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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