Authors Born in Illinois

1

Kelly Rizzo, 43

2

Shonda Rhimes, 52

3

Mandy Rose, 39

4

Justin Taylor, 46

5

Mo Willems, 54

6

Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)

7

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

8

Daniel Cohen (1936-2018)

9

Shawn Ryan, 55

10

Mark Schwahn, 56

11

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

12

Lena Waithe, 38

13

Sandra Cisneros, 67

14

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

15

Sam Shepard (1943-2017)

16

Robert Lewis Taylor (1912-1998)

17

Tiffany Mitchell, 36

18

Mary Morrison, 58

19

Linda Sue Park, 62

20

Diablo Cody, 44

21

Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

22

Brian Doyle-Murray, 76

23

Betty Friedan (1921-2006)

24

Michael Nelson, 57

25

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

26

Mark Roberts, 61

27

Jeffery Deaver, 72

28

Sarah Dessen, 52

29

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

30

Charles R. Johnson, 74

31

Sommer Nectarhoff, 30

32

Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011)

33

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

34

Justin Hall, 47

35

Wendelin Van Draanen, 57

36

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)

37

Aubrey Red, 34

38

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)

39

Tom Clark (1941-2018)

40

Kathy Reichs, 74

41

Sean Stephenson (1979-2019)

42

Juanita Bynum, 63

43

Daniel Carson Goodman (1881-1957)

44

Zach Davis, 36

45

Trey Kerby, 38

46

Steven Levitan, 60

47

Joan Bauer, 71

48

Ali Leroi, 60