William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life

by SusanGoodman (Author), Carl Dawson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $44.92

  Possibly one of the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition. This biography traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly .