James T. Farrell

Died in 1979

James Thomas Farrell was born in Chicago in 1904 into a poor Irish family and grew up with his grandparents. A gas station attendant and a messenger-service clerk, he attended the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1929 without taking a degree. He published more than fifty books of fiction. A Trotskyist activist, he went to Mexico City in 1937 to see Trotsky. Famous in the thirties, he saw his last novels pass almost unnoticed, and publishers considered him finished by 1960. He died in New York in 1979.

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NovelYoung LoniganJames T. Farrell · 1932Literature