id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2980 Chicago literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 3302 394 66 By 1890, the city had over 1 million people.[2] Chicago's dynamic growth, as well as the manufacturing, economics, and politics that fueled this growth, can be seen in the works of writers like Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Willa Cather, and Edna Ferber.[3] The Encyclopedia of Chicago identifies three periods of works from Chicago which had a major influence on American Literature:[18] Bone's list of Chicago Renaissance writers includes fiction writers like Richard Wright, William Attaway, and Willard Motley along with poets like Frank Marshall Davis and Margaret Walker.[19] It is worth noting that the term "Chicago Black Renaissance" is often used to denote creativity in all the arts, not just in literature, during the 1930s-50s.[20] Gwendolyn Brooks's A Street in Bronzeville (1945) is the collection of poems that launched the career of the famous Chicago poet, focusing on the aspirations, disappointments, and daily life of African-Americans living in 1940s Bronzeville.[24] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2980.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2980.txt