When the much-lauded playwright/screenwriter Tony Kushner collects the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 2022 Carl Sandburg Literary Award at a gala Wednesday, he’ll join some illustrious company.
Since its inception in 2000, other recipients have included Stephen Sondheim, Toni Morrison, Roger Ebert, Salman Rushdie and Amy Tan, giants who inarguably meet the award’s lofty criteria of recognizing those “whose significant body of work has enhanced the public’s awareness of the written word.”
