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Henry Blake Fuller
1857–1929
An early Chicago novelist with a sharp eye for city life, he helped put the modern American city into fiction. His work also gained later attention for its unusually frank treatment of same-sex themes.
3 Audiobooks
Bertram Cope's Year
by Henry Blake Fuller
With the Procession
by Henry Blake Fuller
Under the Skylights
by Henry Blake Fuller
About the author
Born in Chicago on January 9, 1857, Henry Blake Fuller became one of the first novelists to give the city a strong national literary presence. He studied in the United States and Europe, and much of his writing is closely tied to Chicago's streets, manners, and social world.
Fuller is best known for novels including The Cliff-Dwellers and With the Procession, works that examined urban growth, class, and the changing character of American life in the late 19th century. He also wrote short fiction, poetry, and drama.
Later readers have paid special attention to Bertram Cope's Year, which is often noted for its treatment of homosexuality at a time when that subject was rarely addressed openly in American fiction. He died on July 28, 1929.