Beschreibung:
DAVID SCHAAFSMA is a professor of English and director of the Program in English Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author of several books on teaching and learning in high school and college English classrooms, he is the editor of Jane Addams in the Classroom and coeditor of Literacy and Democracy: Composition Studies and Literacy in Pursuit of Habitable Spaces; Further Conversations from the Students of Jay Robinson.
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?