I.
The Kentons were not rich, but they were certainly
richer than the average in the pleasant county town
of the Middle West, where they had spent nearly their
whole married life. As their circu...
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920), American writer and editor, was an influential critic and an important novelist of the late 19th century.William Dean Howells's career spanned a period of radical cha...
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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. ...
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The son of a Welsh father, William Cooper Howells, and an Irish-German mother, Mary Dean Howells, William Dean Howells was born in Martin's Ferry in Belmont County, Ohio, the second of eight children....
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William Dean Howells , on his odyssey from self-educated printer's devil to critic, novelist, and preeminent arbiter of American letters, passed through the offices of the Atlantic Monthly during the ...
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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...
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Biography EssayWilliam 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 cen...
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The Kentons
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells