Farrell, James T(homas) (Vol. 1) | Farrell, James T(homas) 1904–
Farrell, James T(homas) 1904–
An American naturalistic novelist, Farrell often depicts life on Chicago's South Side, especially in Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
If … one looks back on the whole stretch of Farrell's Chicago story, it seems possible to say that his subject is and always has been how it feels to be a Chicago Irish-American in a world where this status subjects a man to certain disadvantages…. Farrell … begins to look like one of that remarkable number of writers who have felt the compulsion to put on paper, and thus to solidify and define by finding words for it, the experience of growing up in early twentieth-century America. This compulsion has something to do with the specifically American experience of living which makes one so remarkably conscious of the difference between the boy he was and the man he is, and involves some sort of leap across the gap that the...
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