{"slug":"william-dean-howells","url":"https://localbooks.app/authors/william-dean-howells","name":"William Dean Howells","bio":"William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, and grew up in Hamilton, Dayton and Columbus, setting type in his father's newspaper offices. A campaign biography of Lincoln earned him a consulship in Venice; he went on to edit The Atlantic Monthly and wrote more than a hundred books, including The Rise of Silas Lapham. A friend and champion of Mark Twain, Henry James and Paul Laurence Dunbar, he was called the Dean of American Letters.","photo":null,"location":{"path":"us/ohio/martins-ferry","name":"Martins Ferry, Ohio, États-Unis","url":"https://localbooks.app/places/us/ohio/martins-ferry"},"website":null,"links":[],"books":[{"slug":"a-boys-town","url":"https://localbooks.app/books/a-boys-town","title":"A Boy's Town","subtitle":null,"published_on":"1890","content_rating":"general","cover":"https://localbooks.app/img/covers/01M4H9K547SHFKHMND75CTM3SM/front-01m4jttz5js5xg0sx1tja1nrdv.jpg?w=1200","author":{"slug":"william-dean-howells","name":"William Dean Howells","url":"https://localbooks.app/authors/william-dean-howells"}}]}