Looking for local authors? The Urbana Free Library and the Champaign Public Library couldn’t provide a full list of local authors — but we thought it might be nice to provide these links and start an on-going thread of other local authors on Smile Politely.
For a brief list of Champaign authors and Urbana authors.
Or check out the authors’ work directly:
- Richard Powers
- Elaine Fowler Palencia
- Roger Ebert
- Tim Zahn
- Steven Hager
- Jean Thompson
- Ilona Matkovszki
- Dennis Roberts
- Alma Gottlieb
- May Berenbaum
- Philip Graham
- Tom Kacich
- David Foster Wallace
- Iris Chang
- Carol Timms
- Elizabeth Hoyt (pen name – Julia Harper)
- Natalia Belting
- Rebecca Caudill
- Julie Kistler
- Dee Brown
- Raymond Bial
- Walt Harrington
- Michael Van Walleghen
- Ray Elliott
- Dorothy and Sid Rosen
- Janice Harrington
- Patricia Hruby-Powell
- Karin Dovring
- Laurence Lieberman
- Alice McGinty
- Margot & Richard Jerrard
- Murial “Mickey” Scheinman
- The Van Doren family
- Amy Hassinger