Henry Blake Fuller
Henry Blake Fuller was a pioneering Chicago realist whose The Cliff-Dwellers was one of the first American urban novels set in a skyscraper. He also wrote witty cosmopolitan fiction set in Italy.
Works
- The Cliff-DwellersSatirical novel depicting Chicago's aspiring social-climbing apartment dwellers during the Gilded Age
- With the ProcessionNovel about Chicago's upper-middle-class family navigating social status and mercantile ambitions
- Bertram Cope's Year
- Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani
- Gardens of This World