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'''William Dean Howells''' (1837-1920) was an American author. His works include ''The Rise of Silas Lapham'' (1885) and ''A Traveler from Altruria'' (1894).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref>
'''William Dean Howells''' (1837-1920) was an American author. His works include ''The Rise of Silas Lapham'' (1885) and ''A Traveler from Altruria'' (1894).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref>
Howells was a practicing [[Christian socialist]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5wzWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA705 Socialism and American Life]</ref> who was keenly influenced by the works of [[Leo Tolstoy]] and [[Edward Bellamy]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4XWVR86isAoC&pg=PA283 The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915]</ref> His father William Cooper Howells was an Owenite.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=PwzWIi6DRRsC&pg=PA19 Challenging Social Injustice: Essays on Socialism and the Devaluation of the Human Spirit]</ref> When the [[Haymarket Affair]] occured in Chicago, Howells sided with the anarchists.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wXWT_MxpoAMC&pg=PA37 The Haymarket Square Tragedy]</ref> The Haymarket Affair led Howells to write the book ''A Hazard of New Fortunes'' (1890).
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