The Studs Lonigan Trilogy - James T. Farrell
James T. Farrell
{February 7, 1904 – August 22, 1979}
Born in Chicago in 1904 and reared in a lower-middle-class environment, James T. Farrell gained early and at firsthand his knowledge of the lower levels of urban society—a knowledge which was to form the basis for much of his later fiction. Supporting himself by a variety of menial jobs, Farrell attended De Paul University, then the University of Chicago. It was there, while majoring in the social sciences, that he was encouraged to write b ...