River Forest Author Publishes New Book on Chicago and Literature

New book by Michelle E. Moore published by Bloomsbury Academic! Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict reveals brand new information about the connections between Chicago and the great American writers: Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner. It reveals new sources for Fitzgerald's fabulous women, explains how Hemingway's writing style originated from Chicago, and uncovers how Frank Lloyd Wright helped to inspired American literary modernism. The book draws from new archival sources published for the first time and fuses together literary history and biography to produce new readings of much loved novels and short stories. It tells the new story of the Second City that has been waiting to be told.

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Michelle E. Moore, Ph.D. is Professor of English at the College of Dupage, where she teaches classes in American literature and film. She has published articles in Literature/Film Quarterly, Cather Studies 9 and 11, and Faulkner Studies, and given numerous presentations on American modernism at Modern Language Association conventions and at Modernist Studies Association conferences. She is a member of the Willa Cather Foundation, The Hemingway Society, The Hemingway Society of Oak Park, The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, The Faulkner Society, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and gives papers regularly at their seminars and conferences.