Fuller Awards Celebrating Rosellen Brown

- | 12:00 AM - 5:00 AM
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free admission
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A reception follows the program.

The Fuller Award is presented by the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame to a Chicago author who has made outstanding lifetime contributions to literature. Rosellen Brown will become the fourth recipient of the prestigious award, after Gene Wolfe, Harry Mark Petrakis, and Haki Madhubuti. A lineup of speakers from the literary community, including Reginald Gibbons, Alex Kotlowitz, Donna Seaman, Carol Anshaw, Susan Bielstein, Leigh Bienen, Janet Burroway, Bernardine Dohrn, Marv Hoffman, John Kersey, Britney Lipton, Mary Schmich, Judy Valente and Arne Weingart will give tributes to illuminate the depth of Brown’s work and its importance to Chicago and American letters.

Cosponsored with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and the Guild Literary Complex

 

 

 

 

 

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