Howells, William Dean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...writers as Tolstoy , Zola , and Ibsen helped to mold American taste, and he was a literary mentor to Mark Twain , Hamlin Garland , Thorstein Veblen , and Stephen Crane . From the late 1880s on Howells spent much of his time New York City. During...