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Herman Kogan (November 6, 1914 - March 8, 1989) spent fifty years covering Chicago, many with the Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of Yesterday's Chicago (E.A. Seeman, 1976) and several nonfiction books with fellow journalist Lloyd Wendt, including Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company (Rand McNally, 1952), Big Bill of Chicago (Bobbs-Merrill, 1953), and Lords of the Levee (Bobbs-Merrill, 1943). He also wrote The Great EB: The Story of the Encyclopædia Britannica (University of Chicago Press, 1958).