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Leon Forrest

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Chicago novelist; There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden

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Chicago novelist; There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden

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Leon Forrest was a Chicago author of fiction and essays whose career was celebrated in Chicago and nationally; his novels include Two Wings to Veil My Face (1984) and Divine Days (1992), which Henry Louis Gates Jr. called 'the War and Peace of African-American literature'; he was a professor at Northwestern University from 1973 and head of its African American Studies Department from 1985 to 1994; inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2014 (Guild Literary Complex).

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