About the Author

Carl Smith is the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and professor of history at Northwestern University. His books include three prize-winning volumes: Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920; Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman; and The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, the latter two published by the University of Chicago Press.
Hometown: Chicago, IL

Events for Author

Carl Smith
May 15, 2013 6:00 PM

60 W. Walton Street
Chicago,IL 60610
 

Carl Smith discusses his new book City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, at a Meet the Author event at the Newberry Library in downtown Chicago.

For more information contact Jeffrey Waxman at (773) 702-0279.