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Date 1912 - 1925
Significant Works Sister Carrie • Spoon River Anthology
Related Artists Theodore Dreiser • Harriet Monroe • Sherwood Anderson • Margaret Anderson • Carl Sandburg • Edgar Lee Masters • Vachel Lindsay • Floyd Dell • Henry Blake Fuller

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