From the Ohioana Library Collection
Mame’s Boys: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The story of a great collaboration and a great gift to the theater
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April is National Poetry Month and Ohio is honored to claim several prominent poets as native sons and daughters. Read about some noted Ohio poets,
read some poems by Ohioans about Ohio and review winners of past poetry awards.
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Celebrating Ohio Women at Ohioana Through Women's History Month in March and All Year Long
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February is Black History Month and Ohio is honored to claim several prominent black writers as native sons and daughters.
Read some special tributes to a few black Ohioans who have made an impact on the American literature and arts.
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In January 2008, Charles Waddell Chesnutt will be featured on the 31st postage stamp in the Black Heritage series.
Chesnutt, a pioneering African-American turn-of-the-century social realism writer, was born in Cleveland OH.
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William Sydney Porter finds his way into the Ohioana Library collection as a guest of the Ohio Penitentiary. As
O.Henry he
wrote many short stories revolving around the Christmas season.
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Frank Crumit was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1889. He worked in vaudeville, on Broadway, made over 250 recordings, often sporting catchy, zany lyrics, and in partnership
with his wife, Julia Sanderson, enjoyed a phenomenal career in early radio.
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Hildegarde Gertrude Frey (1891-1957), was a lifelong resident of Cleveland. She created ten Camp Fire Girls novels when she was between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-eight.
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Known as the "Poet Laureate of Harlem," James Langston Hughes is a graduate of Central High in Cleveland.
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Essay by Michael J. Bugeja and how his life intersected with Terry Anderson and how poetry ultimately brought Anderson to Ohio University.
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Herbert Gold was born in Cleveland OH and grew up Lakewood OH . He has published more than twenty novels as well as countless short stories,
essays, articles, and memoirs.
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For more featured Ohioans see
The Ohio Legacy Series
The Ohio Legacy Series, cosponsored by the Ohioana Library and the Ohio Arts Council, is a series of essays featuring various contemporary
Ohio authors and artists writing about how being from Ohio or how the work of other Ohio writers has influenced their own work.
The series, funded in part by an Ohio Arts Council grant, ran in the Ohioana Quarterly from spring 2001 to summer 2005.
Ohioana Authors Radio Series
In 2005 the WOSU Stations, in partnership with the Ohioana Library, and with support from the Ohio Humanities Council and We The People, presented 52 radio features celebrating Ohio’s rich literary and historical heritage and Ohio’s contribution to American culture through the written word.
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