For 10 points, name this American realist author of A Modern Instance, the creator of Silas Lapham and A Hazard of New Fortunes.
In one story by this writer, a woman proclaims that she could not love a man who did not have the utmost love for his country, leading George Gearson to die at war. He claimed that, because American authors were not subject to social and political wrongs, and because the "wrong from class to class" in America has been so little, American writers focused on the "more smiling aspects of life." This author of "Editha" told the story of the declining marriage of Marcia Gaylord and (*) Bartley Hubbard in one novel. Tom Corey's relations with two sisters named Irene and Penelope drives the plot of one of his novels in which the sisters' father makes a fortune in the paint industry, and, in another work, Mr. Dryfoos bankrolls the magazine Every Other Week, which is run by Basil March. For 10 points, name this American realist author of A Modern Instance, the creator of Silas Lapham and A Hazard of New Fortunes.
In one story by this writer, a woman proclaims that she could not love a man who did not have the utmost love for his country, leading George Gearson to die at war.
William Dean Howells