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Howells, William Dean

was born March 1, 1837, in Martin's Ferry, Ohio. In 1860 he published with J. J.

Piatt, Poems of Two Friends. In the same year he wrote a Life of Abraham Lincoln, and from 1861-65 was consul at Venice.

Venetian Life, and Italian Journeys, date from this portion of his career. From 1872-81 he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and since then has devoted his time wholly to literature in Boston and New York. His writings since 1869 include: The Day of Their Wedding; At the Sign of the Lion's Head; No Love Lost; Suburban Sketches; Their Wedding Journey; A Chance Acquaintance; A Foregone Conclusion; The Lady of the Aroostook; The Undiscovered Country; A Modern Instance; A Woman's Reason; The Minister's Charge; Indian Summer; A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories; Doctor Breen's Practice; The Rise of Silas Lapham; April Hopes; Annie Kilburn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Shadow of a Dream; An Imperative Duty; The Quality of Mercy; The World of Chance; The Coast of Bohemia; A Traveler from Altruria; Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories for Children; A Parting and a Meeting; The Sleeping-Car, and Other Farces; The Mouse-Trap, and Other Farces; Out of the Question, a comedy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a comedy; A Sea Change, or Love's Stowaway; Poems; Stops from Various Quills, a book of verse. Among miscellaneous writings of his are, Three Villages (Shirley, Lexington, Gnadenhütten); Modern Italian Poets; A Boy's Town; Tuscan Cities; My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism and Fiction; and My Literary Passions. was