Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979

James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was an Irish-American novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet, and literary critic. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Chicago and published his first short story in 1929. He is best known for his Studs Lonigan trilogy and for his A note on Literary Criticism, in which he described two types of the American Marxist character.

American author.

Farrell was an American novelist.

James T. Farrell (1904-1979), the American novelist and critic, grew up on the South Side of Chicago and attended the University of Chicago for nearly three years in the 1920's. It was at the suggestion of Robert Morss Lovett, a University of Chicago professor, that Farrell transformed a short story about a boy named Studs Lonigan into a novel. The Studs Lonigan trilogy remains Farrell's best-known work.

James T. Farrell was an American novelist and short story writer. Born on the south side of Chicago, his work was inhabited by characters and events he knew from the streets. A naturalist writer in the tradition of Dreiser, his prose was blunt and roughly-hewn, as exemplified by the Studs Lonigan Trilogy. Although his plain style seemed out of place in the literary experimentation of the 1940s, he continued to be a productive writer with a loyal following. His interest in socialist tenets led to a widely-read critical assessment of American literary criticism.

One letter (TLS) from author James T. Farrell to Elizabeth Schneider (English Department, University of Pennsylvania), re legal action to suppress his book, "Studs Lonigan". New York, NY May 1948.

Author and critic.

James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was an American writer most famous for his fiction set in the city of Chicago.

James T. Farrell was an American novelist and poet of the mid-20th century.

American journalist and novelist.

James T. Farrell (1904–1979) was an American writer most famous for his fiction set in the city of Chicago.

James T. Farrell was born in Chicago on February 27, 1904. Farrell was raised in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. A good portion of his fiction is set in Chicago and focuses on working class and intellectual characters. Farrell published more than twenty-five novels during his lifetime, as well as numerous collections of stories and works of criticism, but he is best-known for his trilogy of novels focusing on the character Studs Lonigan, and for a series of five novels centered around the character Danny O'Neill. Farrell was also active in contemporary politics and is generally associated with writers of the American left who emerged during the 1930s and 1940s. In his later years, Farrell devoted much of his writing to a cycle of novels titled A Universe of Time which he began writing in the early 1960s and which he projected to approximately thirty titles. James T. Farrell died in 1979.

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American author.

Born and raised in South Chicago, Farrell is best known for his Chicago-based Studs Lonigan trilogy, 1932-1935. Having dropped out of college to become a writer, Farrell settled in New York City, where he began a productive writing career. Besides Studs Lonigan, he published short stories, literary criticism, and poetry, and gave numerous lectures and speeches. Farrell was one of the most influential and well-educated novelists of the 1930s and 1940s, in the tradition of literary intellectuals combining left-wing politics and creative writing. He died in 1979.

American author.

Born in southwest Chicago in 1904 to immigrant Irish parents, James T. Farrell was the first of his working-class family to attend college. Throughout his life Farrell was involved in socialist and liberal committees and causes and was well educated in political and social issues. He was a prolific writer, establishing himself as a realist in the naturalistic tradition of Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris. Perhaps Farrell's greatest achievement is the Studs Lonigan trilogy, published as a unit in 1935 and then the five books about Danny O'Neill, published between 1936 and 1953.

Farrell was married twice to Dorothy Butler and once to actress Hortense Alden, with whom he had two sons, Kevin and John.

In 1965 he settled down in Manhattan, where he had lived for many years, with his close friend Cleo Paturis. After his death in 1979, Paturis devoted herself to preserving his reputation as one of America's important authors.

James Thomas Farrell, a prominent member of the American school of literary realism, was born on Chicago's southside to Irish Catholic parents in 1904. Farrell uses his ethnic background and childhood neighborhood as the basis for a triology about Irish working class life, of which.

"Studs Lonigan" (1936) is a centerpiece. Farrell wrote numerous novels and short stories based on the American working class experience in the tradition of Dreiser, Norris, and Sinclair.