WHOS YOUR WRITER

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George Ade
Gene Stratton Porter
Jim Davis
Booth Tarkington
James Whitcomb Riley
Johnny Gruelle
Ernie Pyle
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Dan
Wakefield
Lewis Wallace
Theodore Dreiser
Jessamyn West
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Lewis Wallace

• Lewis Wallace was born on April 10, 1827, in
  Brookville, Indiana. He was a commander in the
  U.S. Army, elected into the Indiana state Senate,
  and served as Ambassador to Turkey. His most
  famous books were Ben Hur and A Tale of the
  Christ. Wallace died on February 15, 1905, in
  Crawfordsville, Indiana.

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Ernie Pyle

• Ernie Pyle was born near Dana, Indiana, in
  1900. Pyle served three months in the Navy when
  he was eighteen. He wrote briefly for local
  newspapers in Indiana. Pyle became the USAs
  first aviation columnist and later was managing
  editor of the Washington Daily Show before taking
  on the national column. In 1945 he was killed by
  a Japanese sniper while serving as a war
  correspondent.

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James Whitcomb Riley

• James Whitcomb Riley was born in 1849 in Indiana.
  In 1874 he began working as an associate editor
  at The Greenfield Newspaper. A year later he
  published his first poem in Hearth and Home
  magazine. Some books that Riley wrote were The
  Old Swimmin'-Hole, Riley Child-Rhymes, Out to Old
  Aunt Mary's, and An Old Sweetheart. Riley died in
  1916 .

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Theodore Dreiser

•     Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute,
  Indiana on December 28, 1845. Dreiser was a
  finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature in
  1930. He won the Award of Merit and was elected
  to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Some
  of the books he wrote included Sister Carrie,
  Jennie Gerhardt, and An American Tragedy. He died
  on December 28, 1945, the same day as his
  birthday.

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George Ade

• George Ade was born in 1866 in Kentland, Indiana.
  In his career, Ade wrote humorist fiction. His
  writings pertained to serious issues such as the
  environment. One of Ades best known books is The
  Permanent Adethe Living Writings of George Ade.
  Ade died at age 78 in 1944.

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. novelist, essayist and
  dramatist, was born in 1922 in Indianapolis,
  Indiana. The science-fiction novel
  Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) is considered his
  masterpiece. He earned awards for eight of his 15
  books. He died at the age of 81 in March 2007.

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Gene Stratton Porter

•    Gene Stratton Porter was born on a farm in
  Wabash, Indiana in 1863. Porter was the daughter
  of Mark and Mary Stratton. She was the youngest
  of 12 children. Her five greatest books were The
  Song of The Cardinal, Freckles, What I Have Done
  with Birds, At The Foot of The Rainbow, and  A
  Girl of the Limberlost. Porter died in 1924.

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Booth Tarkington

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• Booth Tarkington was born in 1869 in
  Indianapolis, Indiana. He wrote novels about life
  in the Midwest like The Gentleman of Indiana. He
  received two Pulitzer Prizes for Alice Adams and
  The Magnificent Andersons. He died in 1946.

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Johnny Gruelle

• Johnny Gruelle was born in 1880 in Arcola,
  Illinois. When he was young his family moved to
  Lockerbie Street of Indianapolis. Most people
  know Johnny Gruelle through the rag doll Raggedy
  Ann and her brother Raggedy Andy. Gruelle was
  hired by the Indianapolis Star to write political
  cartoons. Johnny Gruelle died in 1939.

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Jim Davis

• Jim Davis was born in 1945 on a farm in
  Fairmount, Indiana. As a child, Jim liked to
  doodle. He went to Fairmount High School. He was
  cast in four plays while at Fairmount. He later
  studied art at Ball State University. He created
  one of the most well known cartoon characters,
  Garfield.

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Mary Jessamyn West

• Many books and novels have been written by Mary
  Jessamyn West. West was born July 18, 1902, and
  she grew up in Jennings County, Indiana. The
  Witch Diggers, Little Men, South of the Angels,
  and The Massacre of Fall Creek, were written by
  this amazing author. She died in 1984.

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Dan Wakefield

• Dan Wakefield was born on May 21, 1932, in
  Indianapolis, Indiana. He was nominated for the
  National Book Award in 1970 for Going All the
  Way. His short stories were included in Best
  American Stories of 1966 and American Literary
  Anthology 2. He wrote many articles, essays and
  reviews that appeared in magazines.

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