For 10 points, name this author of A Hazard of New Fortunes and The Rise of Silas Lapham.
This author unfavorably contrasted an ideal grasshopper made out of cardboard and wire to a "simple, natural, and honest" grasshopper in his text Criticism and Fiction, which includes an essay about the "smiling aspects of life." He wrote about his friendship with Mark Twain in My Mark Twain, though authors like Sinclair Lewis decried his genteel influence. This author championed Chesnutt's conjure stories and Dunbar's dialect poetry as the editor of the (*) Atlantic Monthly. This "Dean of American Letters" championed the Realism exemplified by his own novel about the love triangle between Ben Halleck, Marcia Gaylord, and Bartley Hubbard, A Modern Instance. Basil March relates a street-car strike in another work by this man, whose most famous protagonist marries into the Corey family after making bank selling paint. For 10 points, name this author of A Hazard of New Fortunes and The Rise of Silas Lapham.
This author unfavorably contrasted an ideal grasshopper made out of cardboard and wire to a "simple, natural, and honest" grasshopper in his text Criticism and Fiction, which includes an essay about the "smiling aspects of life."
William Dean Howells