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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Dean Howells

1837–1920

American writer. Assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1866–71; editor, 1871–81. Author of novels, biographies, poems, and essays. Part of a literary circle in Boston.

Source

DAB

Bibliography

DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.

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