William Dean Howells
Howells, William Dean (1837–1920), U.S. author, critic, and chief editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1871–81). He was a pioneer of U.S. social fiction. His finest and most famous novel is The Rise of Silas Lapham (1855). Among those influenced by his work were Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser.
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