Monday, December 26, 2011

James T. Farrell, who wrote...

...the Studs Lonigan trilogy in the 1930s, attended Mount Carmel High School, according to a biography I just started reading. 

An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell, by Robert K. Landers, mentions that the future writer entered what was then known as St. Cyril High School on Chicago's South Side in 1919 (the year my parents were born). His friend, "Studs" Cunningham, on whom Farrell's famous character was based, attended Loyola Academy on the city's North Side.

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