As a reward for his campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, he was appointed consul to Venice, which he described in the 1866 Venetian Life.
This author wrote of his childhood in the works A Boy's Town and Years of My Youth. As a reward for his campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, he was appointed consul to Venice, which he described in the 1866 Venetian Life. He wrote the "Easy Chair" column for Harper's, and, influenced by Tolstoy, he wrote studies of social institutions like A Traveler from Altruria and A Hazard of New Fortunes. FTP, who is this American novelist of A Modern Instance and The Rise of Silas Lapham?
This author wrote of his childhood in the works A Boy's Town and Years of My Youth.
William Dean Howells