SOURCE: “Henry Blake Fuller: Civilized Chicagoan,” in The Bookman, Vol. LXX, No. 1, September, 1929, pp. 34-8.

In the following essay, Schultz discusses the defining characteristics of Fuller's novels.

There was in Chicago until this year an old man, born there in 1857, who was hailed by Huneker as his master, who was described by another as among the first of living American men of letters, who wrote one recognized masterpiece and influenced a whole school of modern writers. And yet when he died at the end of July his books were out of print, they are to be found only on the older shelves of the public libraries, and few people know anything about him or them. How does this happen, in a country where advertising and publicity have made all things of merit known to our people everywhere?

It is true Henry Blake Fuller has not been altogether unrecognized...