Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-05-11 | Page 17 | William Dean Howells Famous Author and Editor, Dies, Aged 83

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS FAMOUS AUTHOR AND ANDi i EDITOR DIES AGED l 83 EW TORK TORT May H. H William Dean Howells famous author and editor N NEW died early today at his apartment In the Hotel St. St Hubert Ho was vas 83 y years ara old Mr Howells had recently returned fr from m Savannah Ga where he spent the winter Ills IUs death was hastened by weakness following an attack of ot Influenza Mr Howells was born at Martins Ferry b. b O and and educated himself while working In newspaper offices office His father was waR thes the owner of a a. country n newspaper and the son began to set tyPO type when ho bo was still so BO small that he had to stand stand on a box to re reach ch he the he case Mr Ir Howells began becan to write at an early age ace and his contributions to n newspapers soon oon attracted attention Ho Ito ranked In later years as as' one of ot tt the foremost portrayers of American life I On December 24 24 1862 Mr 11 Howells was married In la Paris to to Elinor G. G Mead of ot Brattleboro Vt He was formerly editor of the Atlantic Monthly Month Month- I ly and Cosmopolitan and at the time of his death death deat conducted The Editors Editor's I E Easy sy Chair In Harpers Harper's Degrees were conferred upon Mr Howells by Yale Harvard Adelbert I college and Oxford He lIe was president of the American Academy of Arts and I Letters He was one of the foremost f i American novelists a friend of ot Longfellow Longfellow Long Long- I fen fellow ow Holmes Emerson Lowell Lowen James and other members of the brilliant coterie of New England authors and poets who circled around Harvard Harvart university and Cambridge Inthe in inthe i ithe the late years of the nineteenth cen cen- tury tUlY Mr Howells with the exception of the Rev Samuel McCord Crothers was perhaps the last surviving member member member mem mem- ber of the famous Saturday Night Nightclub Nightclub club mentioned In Holmes Holmes' Autocrat Table the mutual mu mutual of the Breakfast Table as admiration society The greatest greatest great great- est eat literary lights of ot New England were members Mr 11 Howells was one of ot the tho most I prolific of or American authors and despite his advanced years ears was writing I-writing writing almost up to the moment oCI of oC h his s death Among his best known I works are those those In which New England society Is ie depicted His Ills I Rise of ot Silas Lapham In which the I aristocracy cracy of ot the water side of ot otI Beacon Deacon street Boston are delineated I Is one of ot the masterpieces of American American Amer Arner- ican fiction Following the tho publication publication publication tion of The Leatherwood God In 1915 1916 Mr Howells was awarded the gold medal of the National Institute lof of Arts and Letters for tor distinguished work In fiction t