William Dean Howells
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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).[1]
Howells was a practicing Christian socialist,[2] who was keenly influenced by the works of Leo Tolstoy and Edward Bellamy.[3] His father William Cooper Howells was an Owenite.[4] When the Haymarket Affair occured in Chicago, Howells sided with the anarchists.[5] The Haymarket Affair led Howells to write the book A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890).
References
- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.
- ↑ Socialism and American Life
- ↑ The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915
- ↑ Challenging Social Injustice: Essays on Socialism and the Devaluation of the Human Spirit
- ↑ The Haymarket Square Tragedy