{"product_id":"indian-summer-isbn-9781598531565","title":"Indian Summer","description":"Set against a glamorous Italian backdrop, here is William Dean Howell's  classic comedy of errors, a pitch-perfect story of romantic confusions  that surprises and delights. \"A midlife crisis has rarely been sketched  in fiction with better humor,\" writes John Updike in his engaging  introduction, first published in 1990.John Updike author of \u003cb\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/b\u003e and other celebrated works, is a preeminent American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Dean Howells\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on March 1, 1837. His father was a printer and newspaperman, and the family moved from town to town. Howells went to school where he could. As a boy he began learning the printer’s skill. By the time he was in his teens he was setting type for his own verse. Between 1856 and 1861 he worked as a reporter for the \u003cb\u003eOhio State Journal\u003c\/b\u003e. About this time his poems began to appear in the \u003cb\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/b\u003e. His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, compiled in 1860, prompted the administration to offer him the consulship at Venice, a post he held from 1861 to 1865. He married Elinor Gertrude Meade, a young woman from Vermont, in 1862 Paris. On his return to the United States in 1865, Howells worked in New York before going to Boston as assistant to James T. Fields of \u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/b\u003e. In 1871 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In this position he worked with many young writers, among them Mark Twain and Henry James, both of whom became his close friends. His first novel, \u003cb\u003eTheir Wedding Journey\u003c\/b\u003e, appeared in 1872. \u003cb\u003eThe Rise of Silas Lapham\u003c\/b\u003e was serialized in \u003cb\u003eCentury Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e before it was published in book form in 1885. \u003cb\u003eA Hazard of New Fortunes\u003c\/b\u003e was published five years later. His position as critic, writer, and enthusiastic exponent of the new realism earned \u003cb\u003eWilliam Dean Howells\u003c\/b\u003e the respected title of Dean of American Letters. He died in 1920.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233269362917,"sku":"NP9781598531565","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598531565.jpg?v=1767730025","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/indian-summer-isbn-9781598531565","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}