Born on this day – William Dean Howells:

William Dean Howells

Writer

March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920

Credits:

A Boy's Town (1890); A Chance Acquaintance (1873); A Counsel of Consolation in In After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life (1910); A Counterfeit Presentment (1877); A Day's Pleasure (1876); A Day's Pleasure, and Other Sketches (1881); A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories (1881); A Foregone Conclusion (1875); A Hazard of New Fortunes (1889); A Letter of Introduction (1892); A Little Swiss Sojourn (1892); A Modern Instance (1881); A Pair of Patient Lovers (1901); A Parting and a Meeting (1896); A Previous Engagement (1897); A Sea-Change, or, Love's Stowaway (1884); A Traveler from Altruria (1894); A Woman's Reason (1883); An Imperative Duty (1891); An Indian Giver (1900); An Open-Eyed Conspiracy (1897); Annie Kilburn (1889); April Hopes (1887); Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907); Bride Roses (1893); Certain Delightful English Towns with Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between (1906); Criticism and Fiction (1891); Doorstep Acquaintance, and Other Sketches (1900); Dr. Breen's Practice (1881); Eighty Years and After (1919); Evening Dress (1893); Familiar Spanish Travels (1913); Fennel and Rue (1908); Heroines of Fiction (1901); Hither and Thither in Germany (1920); Imaginary Interviews (1910); Impressions and Experiences (1896); Indian Summer (1885); Italian Journeys (1867); Letters Home (1903); Literary Friends and Acquaintance (1900); Literature and Life (1902); Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (1860); London Films (1905); Miss Bellard's Inspiration (1905); Modern Italian Poets (1887); Mrs. Farrell (1921); My Literary Passions (1895); My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (1910); My Year in a Log Cabin (1893); New Leaf Mills (1913); Niagara Revisited 12 Years after their Wedding Journey by the Hoosac Tunnel Route (1884); No Love Lost (1868); Out of the Question (1877); Parting Friends (1911); Poems (1885); Questionable Shapes (1903); Ragged Lady (1899); Roman Holiday and Others (1908); Room Forty-Five (1900); Seven English Cities (1909); Sketch of the Life and Character of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876); Stops of Various Quills (1895); Stories of Ohio (1897); Suburban Sketches (1871); The Albany Depot (1892); The Coast of Bohemia (1893); The Daughter of the Storage, and Other Things in Prose and Verse (1916); The Elevator (1885); The Flight of Pony Baker (1902); The Garroters (1886); The Kentons (1902); The Lady of The Aroostook (1879); The Landlord At Lion's Head (1897); The Leatherwood God (1916); The Minister's Charge (1886); The Mother and Father (1909); The Mouse-Trap and Other Farces (1889); The Mulberries in Pay's Garden (1906); The Parlor Car (1876); The Quality of Mercy (1891); The Register (1884); The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885); The Shadow of a Dream (1890); The Sleeping Car (1883); The Son of Royal Langbrith (1904); The Story of a Play (1898); The Undiscovered Country (1880); The Unexpected Guest (1893); The Vacation of the Kelwyns (1920); The Whole Family (1908); The World of Chance (1893); Their Silver Wedding Journey (1899); Their Wedding Journey (1872); Three Villages (1884); Through the Eye of the Needle (1907); Tuscan Cities (1884); Venetian Life (1866); Years of My Youth (1916).