Chicago Literature Index — Chicago Studies

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 1.  Midwest Portraits
Harry Hansen
Harry Hansen link
1923 CS
 2.  Chicago in Seven Days
John Drury
John Drury link
1928 NFCS
 3.  Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
Herbert Asbury 1940 NFCS
 4.  Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
St. Clair Drake
St. Clair Drake link
1945 NFCS
 5.  Fabulous Chicago
Emmett Dedmon
Emmett Dedmon link
1953 NFCSMA
 6.  The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters: A Critical History
Bernard Duffy 1954 NFCS
 7.  Chicago: City of Neighborhoods
Dominic A. Pacyga and Ellen Skerrett
Dominic A. Pacyga link,
Ellen Skerrett link
1986 NFCS
 8.  Writing Illinois: The Prairie, Lincoln and Chicago
James Hurt 1992 NFCS
 9.  October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature
Carlo Rotella
Carlo Rotella link
1998 NFCS
 10.  Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing
Richard Guzman and David Starkey (ed.)
Richard Guzman link
1999 NFCS
 11.  Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Vol. I: The Authors
Phillip A. Greasley (ed.) 2001 NFCS
 12.  The Encyclopedia of Chicago
James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, Janice L. Reiff (eds)
Ann Durkin Keating link
2004 NFCS
 13.  Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919
Timothy Spears
Timothy Spears link
2005 NFCS
 14.  Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart link
2005 NFCS
 15.  Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It?
Richard Guzman
Richard Guzman link
2006 NFCS
 16.  The Chicago Literary Renaissance
Jan Pinkerton and Randolph H. Hudson (eds) 2009 NFCS
 17.  The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City
Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems (eds)
Steven A. Riess link
2009 NFCS
 18.  Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago
Leonard G. Ramirez
Leonard G. Ramirez link
2011 NFCS
 19.  The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893–1953
Frederik Byrn Køhlert 2011 NFCS
 20.  The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide
James A. Kaser 2011 NFCS
 21.  Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
Steven C. Tracy 2011 NFCS
 22.  Chicago Portraits
June Skinner Sawyers
June Sawyers link
2012 NFCS
 23.  City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Gary Krist 2012 NFCS
 24.  The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
Thomas Dyja
Thomas Dyja link
2013 NFCS
 25.  Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
Liesl Olson
Liesl Olson link
2017 NFCS
 26.  Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict
Michelle Moore
Michelle Moore link
2018 NFCS
 27.  The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the fire
Ann Durkin Keating
Ann Durkin Keating link
2019 NFCSBio
 28.  Chicago: A Literary History
Frederik Byrn Køhlert 2021 NFCS
 29.  Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
Mike Amezcua
Mike Amezcua link
2022 NFCS
 30.  Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977
Mirelsie Velazquez
Mirelsie Velázquez link
2022 NFCS
 31.  Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind
Robert Vargas
Robert Vargas link
2022 NFCS
 32.  Mexican and Chicano Literature in Chicago: Transplanting Early Roots to the Barrios and Beyond
Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman link
2023 NFCS