Herrick, Robert
Herrick, Robert( 1868–1938),born at Cambridge, graduated from Harvard (1890) and served in the English department at the University of Chicago (1893–1923). His first published work, The Man Who Wins (1897), is the story of a scientist upon whom family and financial pressures are so great as to exert a kind of deterministic influence, even though he is convinced of man's freedom of will. This novelette was followed by novels that showed his continued concern with contrasts of personal and professional demands but that emphasized individual freedom and moral responsibility opposing a corrupt, materialistic society. Among these are The Gospel of Freedom (1898), The Web of Life (1900), and The Real World (1901). The novels that followed, still primarily concerned with the conflict between the desire for material success and the maintenance of personal integrity, and with the place of women in this society, include...
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