Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Person
biographical statement
Citation:
"William Dean Howells." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 24 Nov. 2010 /www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/273557/William-Dean-Howells>.Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hamlin Garland papers
Collection
Identifier: 0200
Abstract
The Hamlin Garland papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia, by and about the American realist writer. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who once held the title of "Dean of American Letters" and counted many of the prominent literary figures of his time as friends. This collection holds close to 10,000 of Garland's letters, which are now digitized and available via the USC Digital Library. Garland's literary notebooks...
Dates:
1850 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1940
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Willard Morse collection on William Dean Howells
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0137
Abstract
Book reviews and periodical appearances (originals or photostats), and an extensive typewritten catalog of Morse's holdings on William Dean Howells, author, editor, and critic, who was widely acknowledged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the "Dean of American Letters." Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining executive in the West and Mexico. He was later made a director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelter Securities Company, Chilean...
Dates:
1860 - 1933
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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