Farrell dead
James T. Farrell, who helped usher in a new era of realism in American literature with his unsparing portrait of lower-class Irish life in his world famous •'Studs Lonigan” trilogy, has died in New York. He was 75 and a family friend said he suffered a heart attack at his Manhattan home. Mrp Farrell won wide critical fame with his 1930 s Lonigan , trilogy tracing the harsh, , unhappy life of a young Irish-American growing up on Chicago’s Southside. His : later books never equalled:, in popularity the semi-1 autobiographical Lonigan p series which helped smash 1 many of the taboos against'' realism in American litera-p ture. —New York. '1
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