An epitapher of literary ghosts: William Dean Howells secured the reputations of others, but not his own.
American Scholar › Vol. 74 Nbr. 3, June 2005
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William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life - Book Review
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An epitapher of literary ghosts: William Dean Howells secured the reputations of others, but not his own.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS: A Writer's Life By Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson University of California Press | $34.95
In July 1860, William Dean Howells, then a 23-year-old newspaper editor from Ohio, presented himself at James Russell Lowell's Cambridge home. Lowell had published several of the young man's poems in The Atlantic Monthly, and Howells hoped that Lowell would ease hi...See the full content of this document
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