- Boynton
- Lowell.
- Untermeyer.
- Atlan. 116 (’15): 214.
- Bookm. 45 (’17): 430 (portrait); 47 (’18): 135.
- Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 5.
- Cur. Op. 58 (’15): 427 (portrait).
- Dial, 61 (’16): 528.
- Ind. 86 (’16): 283; 88 (’16): 533. (Portraits.)
- Lit. Digest, 66 (’20): June 17, p. 32 (portrait).
- Nation, 109 (’19): 713.
- New Repub. 9 (’16): 219; 12 (’17): 109.
- Poetry, 2 (’13): 72; 5 (’14): 127; 9 (’17): 202.
- R. of Rs. 51 (’15): 432 (portrait).
- School and Soc. 7 (’18): 117.
- Spec. 126 (’21): 114.
- Survey, 45 (’20): 318.
- Touchstone, 3 (’18): 70 (portrait).
Henry Blake Fuller—novelist, short-story writer.
Born in Chicago, 1857. Educated in Chicago public schools, graded and high; and at a “classical academy” in Wisconsin. In Europe, ’79-’80, ’83, ’92, ’94, ’96-7. Literary editor Chicago Post, 1902. Editorials Chicago Record Herald, 1910-11 and 1914; at present, Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, for the Freeman, New Republic, Nation, etc.
Suggestions for Reading
1. Compare Mr. Fuller’s stories of Europe with his studies of life in Chicago. What is their relative success? What inferences do you draw?
2. Considering dates, materials, and methods, where do you place Mr. Fuller’s work in the development of the American novel?
3. Before reading On the Stairs, cf. Dial, 64 (’18): 405.
Bibliography
- *The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani. 1891.
- The Chatelaine of La Trinité. 1892.
- The Cliff-Dwellers. 1893.
- With the Procession. A Novel. 1895.
- The Puppet-Booth. Twelve Plays. 1896.
- From the Other Side. Stories of Transatlantic Travel. 1898.
- The Last Refuge. A Sicilian Romance. 1900.
- Under the Skylights. 1901.
- Waldo Trench and Others. Stories of Americans in Italy. 1908.
- Lines Long and Short. Biographical Sketches in Various Rhythms. 1917.
- On the Stairs. 1918.
- Bertram Cope’s Year. 1919.
Studies and Reviews