Auel, Jean M. (Chicago)
The author of The Clan of the Cave Bear
Famous Writers from Illinois
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Bradbury, Ray (Waukegan)
Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles -
Brott, Armin (Chicago)
The author of the parenting book The Expectant Father -
Busey, Brook (Lemont)
The former blogger and stripper who wrote the movie Juno -
Chandler, Raymond (Chicago)
The creator of detective Philip Marlowe -
Crichton, Michael (Chicago)
The author of Jurassic Park -
Dick, Philip K. (Chicago)
The mind-bending sci-fi author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" -
Franzen, Jonathan (Western Springs)
Author of The Corrections -
Friedan, Betty (Peoria)
The author of 'The Feminine Mystique' -
Hansberry, Lorraine (Chicago)
The author of A Raisin in the Sun -
Hemingway, Ernest (Oak Park)
The famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls -
Hersh, Seymour (Chicago)
The journalist who broke the story of the My Lai Massacre -
Malick, Terrence (Ottawa)
The Oscar-nominated director of The Thin Red Line -
Mamet, David (Chicago)
The playwright who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross -
Marling, Brit (Chicago)
Star of the TV series 'The OA' -
Sandburg, Carl (Galesburg)
Author of the poem Chicago -
Sheldon, Sidney (Chicago)
The author of The Other Side of Midnight -
Shepard, Sam (Fort Sheridan)
The actor/playwright who wrote 'Fool for Love' and 'True West' -
Smith, Patti (Chicago)
The poet-rocker who wrote the memoir 'Just Kids' -
Tanning, Dorothea (Galesburg)
The surrealist artist who did Birthday and was married to Max Ernst