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Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
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This excerpt from William Dean Howells's memoir *Literary Friends and Acquaintance* recounts his experiences and encounters with American authors on his way into Boston's literary world. It will interest readers of nineteenth-century American literary history and firsthand accounts of the period's writers.
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, and the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.
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