biography
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Farrell, James T(homas)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–79)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Chicago, USA. He grew up in the Irish-Catholic milieu of Chicago, attended the University of Chicago, held a variety of jobs, visited Paris, then settled in New York City (1931), where he became involved with left-wing politics. At the same time, he began writing naturalistic urban fiction, of which the Studs Lonigan Trilogy (1932–5) remains his best-known work. For almost two decades, by which time far more explicit works left it looking tame, it was considered almost raunchy. It was also seen as a radical indictment of American society. He continued his critique in a steady stream of fiction - in all 50 novels and 13 volumes of short stories - but he rejected Marxist Communism by the 1950s and his reputation waned. |
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