I am no longer afraid to say anything.

Anna Freud, 1895 – 1982
William Dean Howells biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of William Dean Howells

Author Name:

William Dean Howells

Born As:

William Dean Howells

Other Names:

W.D. Howells

Born:

1 Mar 1837

Died:

11 May 1920




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Selected works:

The following were written during his residence in England and in Italy:

Their Wedding Journey, in 1872
A Counterfeit Presentment - 1877
The Lady of the Aroostook - 1879
The Undiscovered Country - 1880
Annie Kilburn - 1888
A Hazard of New Fortunes - 1890
A Fearful Responsibility - 1881
Dr. Breen's Practice - 1881
A Modern Instance - 1882
A Woman's Reason - 1883
Three Villages - 1884
Tuscan Cities - 1885
The Rise of Silas Lapham in 1885

Returned to the United States in 1886 and wrote:

The Minister's Charge - 1886
Annie Kilburn - 1887/88
Modern Italian Poets - 1887
April Hopes - 1888
Criticism and Fiction - 1891
The World of Chance - 1893
Jana Wilcox, or the Walls of the Labyrinth - 1893
The Coast of Bohemia - 1893
My Year In a Log Cabin - 1893
A Traveler from Altruria - 1894
Stops of Various Quills - 1895 - A collection of poems from 1873 to 1886
The Story of a Play - 1898
Ragged Lady - 1899
Their Silver Wedding Anniversary - 1899
The Flight of Pony Baker - 1902
The Kentons - 1902
Questionable Shapes - 1903
Son of Royal Langbrith - 1904
London Films - 1905
Certain Delightful English Towns - 1906
Between the Dark and the Daylight - 1907
Through the Eye of the Needle - 1907
Heroines of Fiction - 1908
The Landlord At Lion's Head - 1908
My Mark Twain: Reminiscences - 1910
New Leaf Mills - 1913
Seen and Unseen at Stratford-on-Avon: A Fantasy - 1914
The Leatherwood God - 1916
Years of My Youth - autobiography - 1916.


                          
Mother Mary Dean Howells
Father William Cooper, eight children
Wife Elinor Mead, three children.                          
                          
Wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola, Giovanni Verga, Benito Pérez Galdós, and, especially, Leo Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of American writers Hamlin Garland, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles W. Chesnutt, Abraham Cahan, and Frank Norris.