The complete online text of Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

Amid an Academy Awardslike atmosphere and with a Nobel or Pulitzer prize seemingly the price of admission, the world's literary elite gathered in Boston to toast the 100th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's birth. But yesterday's festivities at the John F. Kennedy Library...

Literary, popular fiction conflict at book awards Honorary winner King calls for reader support By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press Thursday, November 20, 2003 New York -- Literary and popular fiction clashed at the National Book Awards on Wednesday night as...