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The first museum in the country devoted entirely to American authors opened on North Michigan Avenue in May 2017, the product of nearly a decade of planning by founder Malcolm O'Hagan, an engineer who had admired a similar museum in Dublin and wondered why the United States had none of its own. It sits on the second floor of a building overlooking the Loop, a short walk from Millennium Park, and treats writing in the broadest sense: poetry and fiction alongside speeches, song lyrics, journalism ...