See Writers Who Changed America Exhibit at 3 CPL Locations

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"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."
—Gwendolyn Brooks

See the American Writers Museum’s traveling exhibit From Our Neighborhoods: Four Writers Who Changed America at CPL locations around the city through late October:

The interactive exhibit features authors Lorraine Hansberry, Studs Terkel, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright—powerful voices from Chicago’s past who left a legacy of equality, perseverance and the potential of the written word.