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George Cram Cook, nephew of Davenport benefactor Clarissa Cook, was the cofounder of America’s premier theater group, the Provincetown Players.

Susan Glaspell is by far Davenport’s best-known writer.

It was in a motel in Moline, Ill., that Arthur Davison Ficke and Witter Brynner started the greatest American literary hoax of all time.

Radical novelist, essayist, and literary critic, Floyd Dell was at the center of American literature in the 1920s.

Anyone who has spent time in the Quad-Cities has no doubt seen the images and name of Black Hawk, the legendary Sauk chief.