James T. Farrell

Susan Rochette-Crawley (University of Northern Iowa)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 27 Feb 1904
Died 22 Aug 1979
Activity 1929-1979

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Journalist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Novelist
Poet
Story-writer
Travel writer

Resources

Farrell's Works

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James T. Farrell was an Irish-American writer whose literary corpus is nearly impossible to fully document, owing to the range of his interests, the diversity of his publishing venues, and his ability to write prolifically over the span of five decades. Regardless of the volume of his work, he has been marginalized in literary history as a proletarian writer of the 1930s. The work for which he is best known, the

Studs Lonigan

trilogy, is a masterpiece of American realism that has been of interest to historians and sociologists, as well as literary critics. Though Farrell’s work was popular and disseminated widely during his lifetime, since his death in 1979, his life and work have suffered serious neglect. James T. Farrell was born on February 27, 1904, to a Chicago Irish working-class…

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Citation: Rochette-Crawley, Susan. "James T. Farrell". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 April 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1487, accessed 21 November 2024.]