E. W. Howe's importance in the development of American realism rests on his first and best book, The Story of a Country Town (1883). Howe's autobiographical novel, depicting midwestern drabness and ne...
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E. W. Howe was well known as a small-town Kansas journalist, but on a smaller scale of fame than his younger friend, William Allen White. Centering his career almost exclusively in Atchison, Kansas, H...
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Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937), American author and editor, wrote realistic regional and romantic novels and coined widely circulated aphorisms.Edgar Howe was born on May 3, 1853, in Wabash County, Ind...
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E. W. Howe
Edgar Watson Howe
