The complete online text of The Leatherwood God 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...

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Erma B. Leatherwood, 87, died Oct. 2, 1996, at Lake Taylor Hospital. She was the widow, since 1953, of Lt. Cmdr., Howard G. Leatherwood, U.S. Navy (Ret.). She was one of nine children of Nancy Owens and Joseph W....

Life in the Leatherwoods: John Quincy Wolf Edited by Gene Hyde and Brooks Blevins. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 219. Introduction, illustrations, afterword, appendix, index. $20.00, paper.) John Quincy Wolf's Life in the Leatherwoods, one of the most readable Ozark...