Category Archives: Blog
Nerds Unite!
Do you ever feel like you’re stranded on an island and the only person who [...]
Mar
Dublin Writers Museum & American Writers Museum: Contrasts of Place
From Chicago to Dublin and back, I have seen the likes of two nations’ writers [...]
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Mar
In Their Own Words: Kate Moore
Kate Moore is the author of The Radium Girls, the first-ever narrative non-fiction account of this [...]
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Mar
Reading Recommendations from the AWM
Here at the American Writers Museum, we love to read. A lot. We know that [...]
Feb
In Their Own Words: Eve Ewing
Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. [...]
Feb
War of the Words: Cather vs. Hemingway, 1923
In 1922, Willa Cather’s foray into the subject of World War I, One of Ours, [...]
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Jan
After Clinking Champagne Glasses
You’ve counted down the clock and sang “Auld Lang Syne” at midnight, so now it’s [...]
Jan
American Authors of Short Stories – Part Two
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was born Callie Russel Porter to Harrison Boone Porter and Mary [...]
Dec
Why We Should All Read Sarah Piatt’s Poems
In the late 1850s, when a young Sarah Morgan Bryan began to publish her poems in [...]
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Dec
Things to Do in Chicago in Winter
AWM Offers Things to Do in Chicago in Winter (plus Twelve Odd Tales for Christmas) [...]
Dec