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Farrell's achievement.("An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell")(Book Review)
Robert K. Landers An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell. Encounter Books, 562 pages, $28.95
This superb biography of James T. Farrell shows why the genre is so vital to an appreciation of literature and the literary life. Farrell is now an overlooked writer. To discover why this is so is to explore how his career played itself out and how literary fashions change, as well as to understand the roles politics, the publishing industry, and literary criticism play in making and breaking writers' reputations.
Born in 1904, Farrell grew up on Chicago's South Side among the Irish who would become the most important characters in his fiction. ...
- SUN TAKES PROTEST TO PIRRO'S OFFICE; COUNTY EXECUTIVE DECLINES TO MEET WITH...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) October 9, 2002 700+ words
...treatment plant on Syracuse's South Side. Pirro arrived as SUN members...Pirro's spokesman, Martin Farrell, came out and told the group...meet with SUN at this time," Farrell said later. Talks among the...Staff photographer MARTIN FARRELL (center), spokesman for...
- Waking Jim Farrell.(BOOKS)(An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T....
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Greeley, Andrew M. November 19, 2004 700+ words
...Life and Times of James T. Farrell Robert K. Landers Encounter...passages. The author, James T. Farrell (1904-79), found his equivalent...Mississippi in Chicago's South Side Irish Catholic neighborhoods of the early twentieth century. Farrell wrote about them with unsparing...
- Farrell, James T(homas)
- Reference information from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger January 1, 1995 700+ words
Farrell, James T[homas] (1904...Catholic schools on the city's South Side are the basis of Young Lonigan...squalid urban environment shows Farrell's chief influences to be...based on actual friends. Farrell's literary credo is set...
- A tribute to Farrell.(A World I Never Made)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement McCaffrey, Lawrence J. March 22, 2008 700+ words
...Also an expert on James T. Farrell, Fanning in The Irish Voice...Never Made, has described how Farrell depicted and analyzed the social...advancing African Americans. Farrell did so most famously and thoroughly...neighborhood on Chicago's near South Side. Poverty had forced them to...
- FARRELL-4176475.(Business)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) September 4, 2009 700+ words
Linda C. Farrell of Antioch A memorial service for Linda C. Farrell (nee Carlson), 50, formerly...Morgan Park High School on the south side of Chicago and was a 1981 graduate...University. Linda wed Scott Farrell, her loving husband of 24...
- South Side Savings acquired by Liberty Capital Holding Company. (includes fact...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 30, 1988 700+ words
SOUTH SIDE SAVINGS ACQUIRED BY LIBERTY CAPITAL HOLDING...Hillsboro, today acquired insolvent South Side Savings and Loan Association, Lima...The Federal Home Loan Bank Board placed South Side in receivership. Liberty Capital acquires...
- Two area commissions proposed for South Side: Groups would receive money from...
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) July 5, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Jodi Andes Jul. 5--The South Side is as diverse as it is large. The $1 million...different from the middleclass homes in the South Side's core. For those reasons, some South Side groups want the city to recognize the area...
- South Side harbors best bargains
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Don DeBat February 7, 1986 700+ words
Home resale values on the South Side are rebounding strongly from the...selling price for a home on the South Side was $58,700 in December, up...and southwest suburbs outpaced the South Side in the resale home market. The...
