About Author James T. Farrell
James Thomas Farrell (1904-1979), American writer, born in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at the University of Chicago. Most of Farrell's novels and short stories, drawn in large part from James Farrell's early experience as a youth in Chicago, are a protest again social and economic inequities in American life. The 1935 trilogy Studs Lonigan, his most famous work, is a portrayal of the social and religious aspects of life among the Irish Americans in Chicago. James T. Farrell was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing for the year 1936-1937. |
