Liesl Olson Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Instagram (Opens in new window) Instagram More Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Liesl Olson is Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library. She is the author of Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis (Yale University Press, 2017) and Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford University Press, 2009). Seeing Eldzier Cortor