the rise of silas lapham by william dean howells

In January 1866 James Fields offered him the assistant editor role at the Atlantic Monthly. Upon returning to the U.S., Howells wrote for various magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. Among their children was the future architect John Mead Howells. On Christmas Eve 1862, he married Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris. Said to be rewarded for a biography of Abraham Lincoln used during the election of 1860, he gained a consulship in Venice. Through these contacts, he also became a personal friend to many other writers, including Henry Adams, William James, Henry James and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In 1860 he visited Boston and met with American writers James Thomas Fields, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He avidly studied German and other languages and was greatly interested in Heinrich Heine. In 1858 he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces from French, Spanish, and German.

In 1856 Howells was elected as a Clerk in the State House of Representatives. In 1852 his father arranged to have one of Howells' poems published in the Ohio State Journal without telling him. Howells began to help his father with typesetting and printing work at an early age. His father was a newspaper editor and printer, and moved frequently around Ohio. He was known for the Christmas story 'Christmas Every Day' and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham.īorn in Martins Ferry, Ohio, originally Martinsville, to William Cooper and Mary Dean Howells, Howells was the second of eight children. William Dean Howells (Ma– May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. Story has it that he helped Mark Twain get started. He wrote 35 novels, 35 plays, 4 books of poetry, 6 books of criticism, and 34 miscellaneous volumns. He was a novelist, poet editor and critic. He was known for the Christmas story 'Christmas Every Day' and the novel 'The Rise of Silas Lapham'.

William Dean Howells (MaMay 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic.

The rise of silas lapham by william dean howells