A Gift from the Culture
"A Gift from the Culture", published in 1987, is a short work of space opera, by the Scottish science fiction author Iain M. Banks. The story is an early venture into the "complex and unusual and very distant" setting of the Culture, which Banks would further develop through various of full length novels, stories, and his essay "A Few Notes on the Culture".
Culture Coast Chicago
The post-World War II years brought poet Gwendolyn Brooks to the Culture Coast, where she wrote her collection "Annie Allen", the first work by an African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Dramatist Lorraine Hansberry later made history as the first black woman produced on Broadway with the 1959 debut of her play "Raisin in the Sun", a fictionalized account of her family's experience of trying to move into a white neighborhood in Woodlawn.