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    William Dean Howells (/ˈhaʊəlz/; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean...
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  • William Dean Howells House may refer to: William Dean Howells House (Cambridge, Massachusetts), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in...
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  • The William Dean Howells Medal is awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Established in 1925 and named for William Dean Howells, it is given...
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  • William Howells may refer to: William Howells (Mormon) (1816–1851), Welsh Mormon missionary William Dean Howells (1837–1920), author and critic William...
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    style, devoid of moralizing, earmark Maggie as a naturalist work. William Dean Howells (1837–1920) wrote fiction and essays in the realist mode. His ideas...
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    The William Dean Howells House is a house built and occupied by American author William Dean Howells and family. It is located at 37 Concord Avenue, Cambridge...
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  • fantasy-comedy film based on the 1892 short story "Christmas Every Day" by William Dean Howells. It was directed by Larry Peerce, starred Erik von Detten, and originally...
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  • Preachers Alan Dean Foster, American science fiction writer William Dean Howells, American writer Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor Greg Dean Schmitz, American...
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    The Rise of Silas Lapham (category Works by William Dean Howells)
    The Rise of Silas Lapham is a realist novel by William Dean Howells published in 1885. The story follows the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags...
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  • Howells, grandson of the novelist William Dean Howells, was born in New York City, the son of John Mead Howells, the architect of the Chicago Tribune...
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    editor, and critic William Dean Howells published a favorable review of Dunbar's second book, Majors and Minors in Harper's Weekly. Howells' influence brought...
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    river", Niagara Frontier, 2012, retrieved 15 March 2020 "Avery by William Dean Howells". www.online-literature.com. Online Literature. Retrieved 4 September...
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  • 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on April 15, 2019, as well as the William Dean Howells Medal in 2020. Reviews of the novel have been mostly positive, with...
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    radical as he grew older. In a letter to friend and fellow writer William Dean Howells in 1887, Twain acknowledged that his views had changed and developed...
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    The William Dean Howells House is a historic house at 36 Pepperrell Road in Kittery Point, Maine. Built c. 1870, this house was for many years the summer...
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    American Book Award. His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal. William Howard Gass was born on July 30, 1924, in Fargo, North Dakota...
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  • Elinor Mead Howells (May 1, 1837 – May 6, 1910) was an American artist, architect and aristocrat. She was married to author William Dean Howells and designed...
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    influence of realism author William Dean Howells, who played a major "role in its inception, publication, and reception." Howells and Abraham Cahan first...
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  • fiction for 1990, the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal, and was the runner-up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the...
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  • A Hazard of New Fortunes (category Works by William Dean Howells)
    A Hazard of New Fortunes is a novel by William Dean Howells published in 1889. Basil March – Businessman from Boston who moves to New York City to start...
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    National Book Award for Fiction, the Miles Franklin Award and the William Dean Howells Medal. Hazzard also wrote nonfiction, including two books based on...
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    that is only an imitation of an earlier season of actual strength. William Dean Howells' 1886 novel Indian Summer uses the term to mean a time when one may...
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    conceived by novelist William Dean Howells and carried out under the direction of Harper's Bazaar editor Elizabeth Jordan, who (like Howells) would write one...
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    Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella,...
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    Imogene Graham, a major character in Indian Summer, an 1886 novel by William Dean Howells Imogen, the principal female character in the Ascendance Trilogy...
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  • a book the following year by Alfred A. Knopf. It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award...
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    public exposure. Backed by Higginson and with a favorable notice from William Dean Howells, an editor of Harper's Magazine, the poetry received mixed reviews...
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    Dictionary, the term caffè e latte was first used in English in 1867 by William Dean Howells in his essay "Italian Journeys", but as this preceded the spread...
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  • "I am hitting the man behind him", referring to Dickens. In 1886, William Dean Howells and Edmund Stedman traded verbal blows in the pages of Harper's Monthly...
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  • Mark Twain's Library of Humor (category Works by William Dean Howells)
    works compiled by Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. In 1880, George Gebbie suggested to Mark...
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