James Thomas Farrell was born on 27 February1904, in Chicago. He attended Mt. Carmel High School [1](then known as St. Cyril) and later the University of Chicago. He began writing when he was 21 years old. A novelist known for his realistic portraits of the working class Irish on the South Side of Chicago, James T. Farrell based his writing on his own experiences. He tried to show how people's destinies are shaped by the era and the environment in which they live. One of his most famous books was Studs Lonigan which was made into a film in 1960 and later into a television miniseries in the 1980s. He died in 1979. February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Mount Carmel High School is an all-boys high school on the South Side of Chicago. ... South Side Irish is the term that refers to the large Irish-American community on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. ... Studs Lonigan is the subject of a trilogy of novels by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. ...
JamesT. Farrell was born in Chicago on February 27, 1904.
Farrell was raised in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago.
Farrell published more than twenty-five novels during his lifetime, as well as numerous collections of stories and works of criticism, but he is best-known for his trilogy of novels focusing on the character Studs Lonigan, and for a series of five novels centered around the character Danny O'Neill.
Farrell was acutely sensitive to the psychological costs of living in a class society, and his conceptions of individual consciousness and social destiny were infused with a materialist outlook.
Farrell's Holman, in contrast to her richly painted James Barnett, seems to have come from nowhere; the careful attention paid to the shaping forces of family and environment, so central to the vivification of Studs Lonigan and Danny O'Neill, are nearly absent.
Farrell's greatest weakness as a writer was that he failed to develop either sufficient consciousness about or a sophisticated theory of the uses of language in writing fiction beyond admirable but rather simple notions that language must serve the end of accurately recreating character and environment.
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