Henry Blake Fuller
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General Information
Pen Name: Sometimes, he wrote under the name of Stanton Page
Born: January 9, 1857 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: July 28, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois
Celebrated on the Illinois State Library, Gwendolyn Brooks Building
"What is a man's best age? Peter Ibbetson, entering dreamland with complete freedom to choose, chose twenty-eight, and kept there. But twenty-eight, for our present purpose, has a drawback: a man of that age, if endowed with ordinary gifts and responsive to ordinary opportunities, is undeniably- a man; whereas what we require here is something just short of that." - Henry Blake Fuller, Bertam Cope's Year
Illinois Connection
Henry was born and raised in Chicago.
Biographical and Professional Information
Henry Blake Fuller was an American novelist and short story writer. He was a leader in the flowering of Chicago literature in the 1890s. After finishing school, he traveled abroad and came to think that European culture was superior to American. He moved to Europe but could not escape America for long -- when his father died, he returned to Chicago to take over the family business.
His novel, The Cliff-Dwellers (1893), set among residents of a Chicago skyscraper, is often identified as the first important American urban novel. His other Chicago fiction includes: With the Procession (1895), On the Stairs (1918), and Bertram Cope's Year (1919) as well as the short story collection Under the Skylights (1901).
Published Works
- The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani, 1890
- The Cliff Dwellers, 1893
- With the Procession, 1895
- The Puppet-Booth, Twelve Plays, Century, 1896
- The Last Refuge, A Sicilian Romance, Houghton Mifflin, 1900
- Under the Skylights, Appleton, 1901
- Waldo Trench and Others, Stories of Americans in Italy, Scribners Sons, 1908
- On the Stairs, Houghton Mifflin, 1918
- Bertram Cope's Year, 1919
- Not on the Screen, 1930
- "The New Flag"
Titles for Purchase and at Your Library
 | With the ProcessionISBN: 1406938971 Release Date: 2006-11-03 |
 | The Puppet-Booth: Twelve PlaysISBN: 0548218609 Release Date: 2007-07-25 |
The last refuge;: A Sicilian romance,ASIN: B00085K8YA Release Date: 1900 |
 | Under the SkylightsISBN: 8132000544 Release Date: 2008-02-05 |
 | On The StairsISBN: 1408636859 Release Date: 2008-01-31 |
 | Bertram Cope's YearISBN: 1406500607 Release Date: 2005-10-17 |
Literary Awards
In 1990, his name was engraved on the frieze of the Illinois State Library alongside other great Illinois literary figures.
External Links
Henry Blake Fuller on WorldCat
Henry Blake Fuller on Wikipedia
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