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An Ohio printer turned literary star; How William Dean Howells became one of Boston's elite.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
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The Christian Science Monitor
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July 5, 2005
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Byline: Robert Manning
When, in July 1871, a Princeton University professor asked William Dean Howells for biographic information, Howells responded:
"I was born at Martin's Ferry, ... Ohio on the 1st of March 1837.... I learned the printing business in my father's offices at Hamilton and Dayton, Ohio and worked pretty steadily 'at case' from my twelfth to my nineteenth year. Then I became legislative correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette from Columbus and ...
