Show WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS HOWELLS' DEAD Famous Novelist and Editor Passes Away During Sleep New York York William William Dean Howells novelist and man man of letters died dle in his sleep at his home here early on Tuesday May 11 In accordance with the novelists novelist's wishes his body will be cremated cremated and the ashes taken to to Cambridge Mass At a n dinner given In New r Yo York k in 1912 1012 to do honor to William Dean Howells upon his hig seventy fifth birthday birthday birth birth- da day William Howard Taft then president president pres pres- ident of ot the United States State lauded the guest as the tire greatest living Hying American American American Amer Amer- ican writer and novelist He was the dean of American letters lettel's letters let let- tel's poet essa essayist dramatist and e ed editor editor ed- ed as well as a weaver of ot fiction Born Dorn In Martins Martin's Perry Ferry Ohio in 1837 he served his Iris literary apprenticeship I as a n compositor rep reporter ter and and t editor on his fathers father's newspaper |