Maria Giuseppa, author of R&R: A Feast of Words (2024), has lived in the Chicago suburban area since arriving in the United States from her native Italy. She has followed a number of career paths all …
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bes…
Herman Harold Potok, or Chaim Tzvi, was born in Buffalo, New York, to Polish immigrants. He received an Orthodox Jewish education. After reading Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as a teenager…
Geralyn Hesslau Magrady is a poet, essayist, and novelist . A Chicago native who specializes in local history, Geralyn won the “Soon to be Famous Illinois Author” contest for her 2015 novel Lines, whi…
J. Shep, author of The December Issue (2023) and After Me (2024), has taught at the high school and the university levels while directing plays for several decades. The Illinois resident enjoys writin…
