Mike Ervin papers, 1970-2009 (bulk 1980-2000)

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Mike Ervin papers, 1970-2009 (bulk 1980-2000)

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Mainly writings of Mike Ervin, consisting of magazine and newspaper articles, plays, short stories, and some poems. Scripts of all Ervin's plays are included, with multiple versions for "The Plucky and Spunky Show" which was performed at the Remains Theater in Chicago and also traveled to Alaska.

2.1 linear ft. (5 boxes)

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Ervin, Mike

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Chicago disability activist, freelance journalist, and playwright. Mike Ervin was born on an army base in West Germany in 1956. He was raised on the southwest side of the city and, because of his muscular dystrophy, was educated at the Illinois Children's Hospital-School. He then went on to the University of Southern Illinois from which he graduated with a journalism degree in 1978. Ervin's first job was writing obituaries for the Daily Southtown newspaper. From that pos...