AKA James Thomas Farrell

Born: 27-Feb-1904
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Died: 22-Aug-1979
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Heart Attack
Remains: Buried, Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, IL

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Studs Lonigan trilogy

Father: James Farrell (teamster)
Wife: Dorothy Patricia Butler (m. 1931, div.)
Wife: Hortense Alden (m. 1941, div. 1955)

    High School: Mount Carmel High School, Chicago, IL
    University: University of Chicago (1925-29)

    Irish Ancestry

Author of books:
Young Lonigan: A Boyhood in Chicago Streets (1932, novel, Lonigan trilogy)
Gas-House McGinty (1933, novel)
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934, novel, Lonigan trilogy)
Guillotine Party, and Other Stories (1935, short stories)
Judgment Day (1935, novel, Lonigan trilogy)
A World I Never Made (1936, novel)
A Note on Literary Criticism (1936, criticism)
Can All This Grandeur Perish? and Other Stories (1937, short stories)
No Star Is Lost (1938, novel)
Tommy Gallagher's Crusade (1939, novel)
Father and Son (1940, novel)
My Days of Anger (1943, novel)
The Face of Time (1953, novel)
Reflections at Fifty (1954, essays)
The Silence of History (1963, novel)
Lonely for the Future (1966, novel)
New Year's Eve, 1929 (1967, novel)
A Brand New Life (1968, novel)
Judith (1969, novel)
The Dunne Family (1976, novel)
Olive and Mary Anne (1977, short stories)

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