Title: Chicago literature
Content:  Other noted writers, who were from Chicago or who spent a significant amount of their careers in Chicago include, David Mamet, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Hecht, John Dos Passos, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene Field, and Hamlin Garland.
Title: Culture of Chicago
Content:  Early writers associated with Chicago include Theodore Drieser, Eugene Field, Hamlin Garland, Edgar Lee Masters, and Frank Norris. Poets have included Gwendolyn Brooks and Carl Sandburg. Other notable writers often associated with the city's literary tradition include Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, Lorraine Hansberry, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Studs Terkel, and Richard Wright.
Title: Chicago: City on the Make
Content:   Chicago: City on the Make is a book-length essay by Nelson Algren published in 1951. Initially greeted with scorn by critics and newspaper editors in the city of its gaze (The Chicago Daily News famously called it a "Case for Ra(n)t Control"), it is now widely regarded by scholars as a definitive prose portrait of the city of Chicago, although it has never rivaled the literary status of Carl Sandburg's 1916 poem "Chicago". Algren leans heavily on the imagery and themes developed by Sandburg, to whom Algren dedicated the book. Curiously, he also quietly leans upon a poem about New York called "The City" by Ben Maddow, from 
Title: Chicago Review
Content:  Many well-known writers have been published in Chicago Review, both before and after they became famous. Notably, Philip Roth and Susan Sontag's work appeared in print for the first time in Chicago Review while they were both students at the University of Chicago. Other contributors include Henry Miller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Anaïs Nin, Charles Simic, James Tate, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Philip Levine, Edward Dorn, Anne Carson, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cummings, and Robert Duncan.
Title: Chicago: City on the Make
Content:  remains one of Chicago's most popular local books. Nostalgia for Chicago's colorful history may explain the essay's continued success. In a 2002 reassessment of the essay, University of Chicago scholar Jeff McMahon wrote, "Why does Algren's textual Chicago continue to resonate with Chicago readers today? In sentences that assess Algren's legacy as a Chicago writer — sentences in which Algren serves as subject, Chicago as object — one verb often recurs. As Mike Royko writes in 'Algren's Golden Pen,' Algren captures Chicago. From the discourse on this essay emerges the argument that the text contains some captured aspect of Chicago that still applies to the city today."
Title: Bibliography of Chicago history
Content:  Burnham and the remaking of the American city (2009) ; Smith, Carl S. Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920. (1984). 232 pp. ; Spears, Timothy B. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919. (2005). 322 pp. ; Williams, Kenny J. A Storyteller and a City: Sherwood Anderson's Chicago. (1988). 314 pp. ; Williams, Kenny J. and Duffy, Bernard, eds. Chicago's Public Wits: A Chapter in the American Comic Spirit. (1983). 289 pp. ; Williams, Kenny J. Prairie Voices: A Literary History of Chicago from the Frontier to 1893. (1980). 529 pp. Williams, Kenny J. Prairie Voices: A Literary History of Chicago from the Frontier to 1893. (1980). 529 pp. 
Title: Chicago literature
Content: Nelson Algren's Chicago: City on the Make (1951) is a prose poem about the alleys and the El tracks, the neon and the dive bars, the beauty and cruelty of Chicago. ; David Auburn's play Proof (2000 New York debut) is set on the porch of a house in Hyde Park. The play focuses on the emotional turmoil experienced by Catherine, a young woman who recently lost her father, a prominent University of Chicago mathematician who suffered from an unspecified mental illness. ; Saul Bellow's Adventures of Augie March (1953) charts the long, drifting life of a Jewish Chicagoan and 
Title: Near South Side, Chicago
Content:  Eds. Grossman, James R., Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L., 2004 The Encyclopedia of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 0-226-31015-9
Title: Kenny Williams (educator)
Content: Chicago's Public Wits: A Chapter in the American Comic Spirit (1983 Louisiana State University Press) ISBN: 0-8071-1043-4 ; A Storyteller and a City: Sherwood Anderson's Chicago(1988 Northern IL University Press) ISBN: 0-87580-135-8 ; Prairie voices: a literary history of Chicago from the frontier to 1893 (1980 Townsend Press), ISBN: 0-935990-00-3 ; They also spoke: an essay on Negro literature in America, 1787–1930 (1970 Townsend Press) 
Title: List of fiction set in Chicago
Content:  The Adventures of Augie March ISBN: 0-14-018941-6 ; Scott Spencer, Endless Love ; Shawn Shiflett, "Hey Liberal" ; Sherwood Anderson, Windy McPherson's Son ; Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge ISBN: 1-4000-3420-5 ; Stuart Dybek, The Coast of Chicago ISBN: 0-312-42425-6 ; Terrance L. Smith, The Thief Who Came to Dinner ; Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie ISBN: 0-451-52760-7 on Modern Library's 100 Best Novels ; Theodore Dreiser, The Titan ; Upton Sinclair, The Jungle ISBN: 1-884365-30-2 ; Veronica Roth, Divergent - #1 on the Children's Paperback list in 2012 ; Ward Just, An Unfinished Season ; Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark 

Question: Who is the author of Chicago?
Answer: Maurine Dallas Watkins.
Maurine Watkins.