← Henry Blake FullerChevalier of Pensieri-Vaniby Henry Blake FullerFind on Amazon↗About the authorHenry Blake FullerHenry 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.More by Henry Blake FullerThe 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→Gardens of This World→