James Thomas Farrell, American novelist and short-story writer, was born on Chicago's South Side, the son and grandson of Irish-Catholic laborers. The young Farrell attended neighborhood parochial schools, and after graduating from high school he worked...

James Thomas Farrell (1904-1979), novelist and social and literary critic, was one of the most unrelenting naturalists in American literature. Born in Chicago, James Thomas Farrell attended Catholic parochial school. He worked at various jobs before atte...

James T. Farrell, a major novelist of the 1930s, was a self-reliant literary intellectual who adhered to a credo that many critics judged old-fashioned in the post-World War II era. Proud to identify himself with the tradition of Theodore Dreiser, Sherwo...

Byline: William H. Pritchard, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES James T. Farrell died in 1979, but his critical reputation had already sunk to a level where it was scarcely recoverable; the novelist once mentioned in the same breath as Ernest Hemingway, William...

IN 1954, JAMES T. FARRELL PUBLISHED a collection of essays called Reflections at Fifty. It is long since out of print, like most of his novels and, so far as I can tell, all of his nonfiction volumes. Digging it out now, Reflections...