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From his days of typesetting as a child for his newspaperman father to his time as chief editor for the Atlantic Monthly, William Dean's Howells lived the writer's life. His first poem was published at age 12, and by age 19 he had been elected clerk of the Ohio State House of Representatives. Two years later he went to work writing for the Ohio State Journal and eventually he would write for Abraham Lincoln's Campaign.

Under Lincoln, he served as consul to Venice and upon returning to America began writing, and then editing for the Atlantic Monthly, where he was made chief editor in Howells was a realist. He was a close friend to Mark Twain, and as editor at the Atlantic Monthly , and then later at Harper's Magazine , he promoted realism through his own editorial writing as well as through the work he accepted for publication.

William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".

Later in his life he would be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he eventually became president of the Academy. Quotidiana is an online anthology of "classical" essays, from antiquity to the early twentieth century. All essays and images are in the public domain. Commentaries are copyrighted, but may be used with proper attribution.

William Dean Howells Biography From his days of typesetting as a child for his newspaperman father to his time as chief editor for the Atlantic Monthly, William Dean's Howells lived the writer's life.

William Dean Howells is born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, to William Cooper and Mary Dean Howells, the second child and second son of their eight children.

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