Willard Motley

CTL-E-0118 · Person · writer · 1940s–1960s

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Chicago novelist; author of Knock on Any Door.

The record

Also known as: Willard Francis Motley

Relationships

Englewood — associated with
The Chicago Public Library documents that novelist Willard Motley grew up and came of age in Englewood.

Sources

Chicago History Museum collections (primary source)
Encyclopedia of Chicago (Chicago History Museum)

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