Possibly 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, a formative influence
on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of
social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on
Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his
times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came
of age in an era of political corruption, industrial greed, and
American imperialism. Written with verve and originality in a
highly absorbing style, it brings alive for a new generation a
literary and cultural pioneer who played a key role in creating the
American artistic ethos. "William Dean Howells" traces the writer's
life from his boyhood in Ohio before the Civil War, to his
consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as
editor of "Atlantic Monthly". It looks at his writing, which
included novels, poems, plays, children's books, and criticism.
Howells had many powerful friendships among the literati of his
day; and here we find an especially rich examination of the
relationship between Howells and Mark Twain. Howells was, as Twain
called him, 'the boss' of literary critics - his support almost
single-handedly made the careers of many writers, including African
Americans like Paul Dunbar and women like Sarah Orne Jewett.
Showcasing many noteworthy personalities - Henry James, Edmund
Gosse, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, and many others
- "William Dean Howells" portrays a man who stood at the center of
American literature through the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
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