Stories of Ohio

This unsung classic of American literature helps shed light on both Ohio and the career of a writer known as the “Dean of American Letters.”
 
With a new introduction by Anne Trubek
 
A novelist, critic, and playwright, William Dean Howells was friends with such luminaries as Mark Twain, Henry James, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Though he’s best known for his East Coast novels like The Rise of Silas ...