American Writers Museum, Author at The American Writers Museum

Historian Dominic A. Pacyga grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a working [...]

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07
Dec

I became a writer because I grew up with storytellers, oral storytellers. Some of them [...]

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Dec

Rebecca Deng hasn’t had an easy life. Born in what is now South Sudan, her [...]

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Dec

"I remember the first time I felt seen in poetry...It was the first time I’d [...]

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Nov

Throughout his life, people have been telling Pablo Cartaya to stop speaking Spanish. When he [...]

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Nov

Each week, the My America blog series will introduce you to one of the writers featured in [...]

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Nov

For today’s Typewriter Tuesday we are honoring Veterans Day and taking a look at this [...]

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Nov

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Nov

Happy Native American Heritage Month! Every November we recognize and celebrate the people who inhabited [...]

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07
Nov

Each week, the My America blog series will introduce you to one of the writers featured in [...]

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Nov