William Dean Howells is quite the most American thing we have produced. Almost all that one can profitably say of him distributes itself about this central magnetizing fact. Of the lessons he has ...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the ...

William Dean Howells, Reader’s Digest, Jan. 1974 30. “The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with ...

Among the writers to sign on were William Dean Howells, William Graham Sumner, Josiah Strong, and Mark Twain. Even the staid New York Times supported the effort, though one of its columnists ...

Photo courtesy of Ohio History Connection. It is widely known that a white critic William Dean Howells and black social reformer and orator Frederick Douglass helped propel Dunbar’s career ...

On the morning of his 24th birthday, the poetry of Paul Dunbar was the subject of a review written by literary critic William Dean Howells in Harper's Weekly. The review read, in part ...

Eight years later, Woolson and her sister went to England. Woolson eventually settled in Venice where she met Henry James and William Dean Howells. Woolson began publishing descriptive articles in ...

Explores the relationship between philanthropy and literary realism in novels by Charles Dickens Nathaniel Hawthorne George Eliot and William Dean Howells and examines how each used the figure of ...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term caffè e latte (Italian for 'coffee and milk') was first used in English by the novelist William Dean Howells in 1867. The latte story goes ...

Rocket-nut. Pizza aficionado. Beer king. William “Bill” Douglass died peacefully at his daughter’s Santa Monica home on Oct. 6. Bill was a great, humble man with a heart of gold. People ...