Howard Pyle’s fondness for the writings of William Dean Howells is well documented - mostly in Pyle’s own correspondence. On October 30, 18...

In honor of Howard Pyle’s 161st birthday, here are a few kind words from some of his friends and admirers: “You write about a beautiful sh...

Howard Pyle made the illustration shown here for William Dean Howells’ “Stops of Various Quills” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine for Dece...

I couldn’t let Labor Day and “official” summer pass by without posting this delicate and relatively unknown pen-and-ink gem by Howard Pyle....

This little exchange between W. D. Howells and his (unnamed) friend Howard Pyle appeared in Howells’ “Life and Letters” column in Harper’s W...

Headband for A History of New York (The Grolier Club, 1886) by Howard Pyle “I asked Mr. Pyle for a list of books he would recommend to m...

In the early 1890s, when Howard Pyle was very much under the literary spell of his friend W. D. Howells , he wrote a handful of “realist” ...

“Your spiritual writings haunt me like personal experiences.” William Dean Howells to Howard Pyle, July 27, 1895

"The temptation to talk is great but it is so dangerous to formulate thoughts into words. So formulated they become such hard stones of...

The rest of the day I spent in writing, and in the evening went down to the Mercantile Library and got Howells ’s A Foregone Conclusion . It...