Tag: #ReneeRosen

• Windy City Blues

  In her fun very readable Windy City Blues (Berkley 2017; $16), Chicago author Renee Rosen again takes another slice of the city’s history and turns it into a compelling read. Rosen, who plumbs Chicago’s history to write such books as Dollface, her novel about flappers and gangers like Al Capone, and What the Lady Wants…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 15, 2022

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• Chicago Writer Takes Us Back to the Gilded Age in New Novel

  

           Chicago author Renee Rosen is again taking us on a trip to the past. In her previous novels, she’s explored the city’s jazz roots (Windy City Blues), the Chicago Fire and the founding of the city’s iconic department stores (What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age), and Prohibition-era…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  April 22, 2021

  American History, Author event, Culture, Fiction

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