The publisher Alfred Knopf called William Humphrey's first novel, Home from the Hill (1958), the finest novel to come out of Texas. More than twenty years have passed since Knopf made the statement; a...
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Although William Humphrey 's novels and collections of short stories have received high praise from reviewers (some of them fine novelists in their own right, including Reynolds Price and Elizabeth Bo...
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Although William Humphrey's reputation mainly rests upon his five novels, he began his career with a book of short stories, The Last Husband and Other Stories (1953), and he continued to write short s...
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After William Humphrey's critically acclaimed and popular first novel, Home from the Hill, was published in 1958, the young author seemed as successful and full of promise as any serious writer of hi...
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William Humphrey