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SUMMARY:Gavin Harper
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 10am \nScreenshot\nGavin Harper (he/him) is a performer\, conductor\, director\, and arts enthusiast. Gavin grew up in the Virginia Beach area\, but has spent the last four years making Chicago his home. Favorite credits include: Cinderella (Virginia Musical Theater)\, Sister Act\, Beauty and the Beast (Oak Lawn Park District)\, The Last Five Years (Generic Theater)\, and Grotesquerie Lake (Zeiders Dream Theatre). He is also a choir conductor for Uniting Voices Chicago\, and Music Director at Street of Dreams Theatre. He holds a BA in Music and MME in Choral Conducting. Sending much love to his incredible friends\, his partner Jonathan\, and his furchildren: Charlie and Leo.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gavin-harper/
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Lyon
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 11am \n \nGabrielle Lyon is a nationally recognized nonprofit leader with a career dedicated to education and civic engagement. As Executive Director of Illinois Humanities\, she champions initiatives that connect people and communities through the public humanities to explore ideas\, engage in dialogue\, and strengthen democracy. She also serves as Chair of the Illinois America 250 Commission\, guiding efforts to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence through inclusive statewide engagement. Throughout her career\, Lyon has launched and led award-winning social impact organizations and initiatives\, particularly those focused on equity in the humanities\, science\, and design.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gabrielle-lyon/
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SUMMARY:Gabriela Barrios
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nGabriela Barrios is honored to return to Sanctuary Stories. While she began her career performing onstage in Spanish in her home country of Venezuela\, Gabriela has since built a career in English-language television\, with credits including Chicago P.D.\, Chicago Fire\, and Law & Order.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gabriela-barrios/
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SUMMARY:Francesca T. Royster
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 3pm \n \nFrancesca T. Royster is Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago. She’s written scholarly work on Shakespeare\, Black Lesbian Country music fans\, Prince\, Tracy Chapman and Fela Kuti\, among other topics. Her books include Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (2022)\, winner of the 2023 Ralph Gleason Popular Music Book First Prize; Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance (2023); Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (2013)\, and Becoming Cleopatra (2003). Her book\, Tracy Chapman and the Art of Refusal is forthcoming from University of Texas Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/francesca-t-royster/
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SUMMARY:Frances R. Aparicio
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 3pm \n \nFrances R. Aparicio is Professor Emerita at Northwestern University\, where she taught in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and served as Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program for eight years. Her research interests include Latina and Latino literary and cultural studies\, the cultural politics of U.S. Latino/a languages\, Latino/a popular music and dance\, literary and cultural translation\, cultural hybridity\, transnationalism\, and Latinidad. She is author of the award-winning Listening to Salsa: Gender\, Latin Popular Music and Puerto Rican Cultures (Wesleyan 1998)\, of Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago (University of Illinois Press)\, and of Replaying Marc Anthony.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/frances-r-aparicio/
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SUMMARY:Fatimah Asghar
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 5pm \n \nPoet\, screenwriter\, educator\, and performer\, Fatimah Asghar is the South-Asian American Muslim author of Daughter of the Mountains\, If They Come For Us\, When We Were Sisters\, and the chapbook After. Asghar is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls\, an Emmy-nominated web series. They are a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. They were longlisted for the National Book Award\, Aspen Words Literary Prize\, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Winner of the Inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction\, Asghar is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/fatimah-asghar/
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SUMMARY:Faisal Mohyuddin
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 5pm \n \nFaisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page)\, The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear)\, and The Riddle of Longing (Backbone/Bull City). He teaches high school English in Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies. He is also a visual artist.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/faisal-mohyuddin/
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SUMMARY:Eve L. Ewing
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13\, 11am \n \nEve L. Ewing is a writer\, scholar\, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of many books across genre\, most recently\, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism\, an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race\, Diaspora\, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago\, and a co-owner of Build Coffee & Books.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/eve-l-ewing/
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SUMMARY:Evan F. Moore
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13\, 3pm \n \nEvan F. Moore is a South Side Chicago-based writer. He’s the co-author of the critically-acclaimed book\, Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It. His award-winning writing was featured in the 2019 and 2026 editions of The Best Sports Writing book series. Evan is an adjunct journalism instructor at DePaul University and a member of the Near South Planning Board’s Harold Washington Literary Award Committee.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/evan-f-moore/
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SUMMARY:Erin Osmon
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 3pm \n \nErin Osmon is a music journalist\, critic\, and author of the new book Won’t Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America. She’s also published books on John Prine and Jason Molina. A native of Evansville\, IN\, and a veteran of Chicago newsrooms\, her writing appears in the LA Times\, The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, No Depression\, and others. She won the ASCAP Foundation’s Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Award for album notes in 2023\, and is the recipient of several Southern California Journalism Awards from the LA Press Club for her profile and feature writing.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/erin-osmon/
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SUMMARY:Erika Slife
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 11am \n \nErika Slife is a deputy metro editor for city and suburban news. Her team of award-winning reporters cover immigration\, public safety\, emerging trends and general assignment features. She began her career as an intern in Springfield\, covering the Illinois State Capitol. Afterward\, she worked as a reporter covering general assignment news in the south suburbs and Chicago before moving to the politics desk as the Chicago Tribune’s Cook County reporter. She’s been an editor since 2022. In 2026\, she helped lead the paper in their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Operation Midway Blitz.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/erika-slife/
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SUMMARY:Emily Yellin
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12:30pm \n \nEmily Yellin is a journalist\, author\, and producer. Her latest book\, Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance\, Agitation\, and Love\, is a collaboration with civil rights movement leader Rev. James Lawson Jr. They worked together for five years to tell his story\, before he died in 2024 at the age of 95. \nEmily is a longtime contributor to The New York Times\, writing about the South\, race and violence against women. She also wrote two previous books\, and produced a 10-part video series for The Root about sanitation workers and their families called 1\,300 Men: Memphis Strike ’68.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/emily-yellin/
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SUMMARY:Emily Nemens
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 1pm \n \nEmily Nemens is the author of the novels Clutch (Tin House/Zando\, 2026)\, and The Cactus League (FSG\, 2020)\, both of which were The New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. Her stories and essays have appeared in BOMB\, Story\, Zyzzyva\, n+1\, and elsewhere; her illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker and in collaboration with Harvey Pekar. Nemens spent over a decade editing literary quarterlies\, including leading the Paris Review and serving as coeditor and prose editor of the Southern Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College and lives in central New Jersey with her husband and dog.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/emily-nemens/
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13 – 10am \n \nElizabeth Taylor\, past president of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC)\, serves on its board. Chair of multiple Pulitzer Prize juries\, she judges many other book awards\, including the J. Anthony Lukas/Lyton. Author (with Adam Cohen) of American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley – His Battle for Chicago and the Nation. She is writing a biography set in Civil War/I Reconstruction America for W. W. Norton/Liveright. She and Cohen launched The National Book Review\, an online journal of books and ideas\, following years as Literary Editor for the Sunday Magazine of the Chicago Tribune\, following her years as a National Correspondent for TIME magazine.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/elizabeth-taylor/
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth McChesney
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13 – 11am \n \nLiz McChesney is a lifelong children’s librarian\, library leader\, literacy champion\, and lover of stories. A Chicagoan\, she has spent her career helping children and families discover the joy\, wonder\, and power of books—from neighborhood libraries to laundromats\, schools\, and community spaces. Liz is the author of Wonder Libraries and Summer Matters\, and she believes the best literacy moments happen when grown-ups and children read\, play\, laugh\, and wonder together. When she’s not talking about books\, Liz can usually be found walking her dog\, planning an adventure\, or hunting for the perfect children’s book to give someone she loves.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/elizabeth-mcchesney/
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SUMMARY:Eileen M. Favorite
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 4pm \n \nEileen Favorite’s novel\, The Heroines (Scribner)\, has been translated into five languages. Her essays\, poems\, and stories have appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, Rumpus\, TriQuarterly\, The Toast\, Hypertext\, Newcity\, Chicago Reader\, Diagram\, and others. Her lectures and opinions on the subject Love the Art\, Hate the Artist have been featured in the Chicago Tribune\, TEDx Wrigleyville\, The Wall Street Journal\, WGN Chicago\, WBEZ\, and The New Yorker. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/eileen-m-favorite/
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SUMMARY:Edward Kelsey Moore
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 1pm \n \nEdward Kelsey Moore is an award-winning author whose works include the New York Times and international bestselling novel The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat\, the film adaptation of which was released by Searchlight Pictures in 2024. His short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and been featured on Chicago Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio. In addition to his writing\, Edward maintains a career as a professional cellist and co-hosts the Who the Hell Are We? literature and film podcast.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/edward-kelsey-moore/
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SUMMARY:Ed Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13 – 3pm \n \nEdward Taylor is Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs and a professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington. His work focuses on expanding educational opportunity\, fostering civic engagement\, and creating communities of belonging. His scholarship explores comparative education\, dialogue\, democracy\, and leadership\, and he has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles\, including The Power of the River. A graduate of Gonzaga University and the University of Washington\, he serves on the boards of the Seattle Foundation\, Gonzaga University\, and Rainier Prep. In 2024\, Gonzaga awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Public Service.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ed-taylor/
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SUMMARY:Ed Roberson
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13 – 12pm \n \nEd Roberson is the author of numerous poetry collections\, including the forthcoming book Red Silk Woven Carpet\, The President’s Wife\, and the Generals of Autumn (selva oscura press\, 2026). His many honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement. Currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, he has taught at Northwestern University\, Columbia College Chicago\, and the University of Chicago. Roberson lives in Bronzeville.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ed-roberson/
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UID:10110-1787644800-1787677200@printersrowlitfest.org
SUMMARY:Dr. Rekha S. Rajan
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 10am \n \nDr. Rekha S. Rajan is a USA TODAY bestselling author\, audio book narrator\, professor and classically trained opera singer. Her books have received starred reviews and been named to numerous state award lists. Books include Amazing Landmarks\, the Disaster Squad chapter books\, Can you dance like a peacock?\, This is Music and This is Dance board books and That Swingin’ Sound: The Musical Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. \nRekha plays numerous instruments including the piano\, banjo\, ukulele and the mridangam (a South Indian drum). She has a doctorate in music education from Columbia University and lives in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dr-rekha-s-rajan/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jay Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 10am \n \nJay Thomas is a retired professor of education at Aurora University in Illinois\, where he taught learning theory\, motivation\, and research methods. He has published and presented internationally on gifted education and STEM education. He is a past president of the National Consortium STEM Schools. Chief: The Three Lives of Gene Locklear is his first biography. He recently presented at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown\, NY\, as part of the Hall’s summer author series. He has also written articles and reviews for NINE\, The National Pastime\, and Elysian Fields Quarterly.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dr-jay-thomas/
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SUMMARY:Donna Seaman
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 11am \n \nDonna Seaman is Editor in Chief and Adult Books Editor for Booklist. A recipient of the Louis Shores Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award\, Seaman is on the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum. Seaman’s author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists and River of Books: A Life in Reading.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/donna-seaman/
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SUMMARY:Donald G. Evans
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 2pm \n \nDonald G. Evans is the author of a novel and story collection\, as well as the editor of two anthologies of Chicago literature\, most recently Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry. He is the Founding Executive Director of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/donald-g-evans/
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SUMMARY:Don Wycliff
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 5pm \n \nDon Wycliff is a retired journalist and educator. His journalism career included stints as an editorial writer at The New York Times and as editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune. He taught journalism for several years at Loyola University Chicago. He was a finalist in 1996 for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing. He lives now in South Bend\, Indiana.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/don-wycliff/
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SUMMARY:Dolen Perkins-Valdez
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 10am \n \nDolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels\, most recently\, Happy Land (2025) which was longlisted for the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize and won the 2026 Southern Book Prize. Her previous novel Take My Hand was awarded a 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. It was longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. A three-time nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship\, Dolen is widely considered a pre-eminent chronicler of American historical life
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dolen-perkins-valdez/
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SUMMARY:Diane Williams
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 5PM \n \nDiane Williams\, a retired arts administrator\, professional storyteller\, fiber artist\, and author\, specializes in writing nonfiction. Her extensive body of work includes numerous books\, as well as contributions to literary journals and anthologies.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/diane-williams/
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SUMMARY:Dhe-Di Beats
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 1PM \n \nDhe-Di Beats is a Chicago-based DJ known for delivering high-energy sets and creating unforgettable vibes. With a passion for connecting with audiences through music\, she brings versatility\, professionalism\, and an infectious energy to every performance. Whether spinning at clubs\, private events\, festivals\, or community gatherings\, Dhe-Di Beats keeps the dance floor moving and every crowd engaged with a seamless\, dynamic sound.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dhe-di-beats/
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SUMMARY:dezireé a. brown
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 12PM \n \ndr. dez brown (they/he)\, publishing as dezireé a. brown\, is a Black queer nonbinary and transmasculine Pushcart Prize–nominated poet and interdisciplinary scholar\, born and raised in Flint\, MI. Their debut collection of poetry\, they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming\, was the winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize and a finalist for the 2026 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. Often claiming to have been born with a poem written across his chest\, he spends much of his time gaming and plays a mean hand of spades. Follow them online at @deziree.the.writer.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/deziree-a-brown/
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SUMMARY:Dawn Turner
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 4pm \n \nDawn Turner is the author of the novel Majestic Hills. Her memoir\, Three Girls from Bronzeville\, won the inaugural Chicago Book Award and was named a Notable book by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and the Chicago Tribune\, among others. A former columnist for the Chicago Tribune\, Dawn has twice served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary and has written commentary for The Washington Post\, PBS NewsHour\, CBS Sunday Morning News show\, NPR’s Morning Edition show\, and elsewhere. She has held fellowships at the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education\, Harvard University and the University of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dawn-turner/
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SUMMARY:David Saul Bergman
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 2pm \n \nDavid Saul Bergman is the pen name of Daniel Born\, a Chicago-based writer and editor. Born taught English for forty years at institutions including Marietta College in Ohio\, Dominican University\, and Northwestern University\, and served as a vice president at the Great Books Foundation. His hardboiled crime fiction includes Unpardonable Sins (2021) and Prodigal Sons: A Novel (2025). Both books feature Mennonite preacher and sleuth John Reimer. He is also author of The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells (1995) and editor of The Essential Dale Suderman Reader (2024).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-saul-bergman/
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