James T. Farrell. To meet a need which had been felt for some time both in the United States and abroad, the pamphlet series, the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, was established in 1959. By providing readable critical introductions to American Writers, the pamphlets were designed to meet the needs and tastes of mature students and readers of imaginative literature throughout the world.
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James T. Farrell James T. Farrell (pp. 5-45)I would say that any genuine artist seeks to give the fullest possible expression to his own psychological life-cycle, and that he seeks to give the best organized form that he can to his own way of seeing the world.” James T. Farrell wrote these words in 1948. In a letter to H. L. Mencken two years earlier he had suggested his way of seeing the world and the course his life had taken: “I was, after all, a young man of plebeian origins trying to write. The background from which I came was not one which fostered and affirmed...
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Selected Bibliography Selected Bibliography (pp. 46-48)