William Dean Howells
Auteur local de Martins Ferry, Ohio, États-Unis
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.