Henry Blake Fuller (January 9, 1857 - July 28, 1929) was a United States novelist and short story writer, born in Chicago, Illinois. Career-Fuller's earliest works were travel romances set in Italy that featured allegorical characters. Both The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani (1890) and The Chatelaine of La Trinite (1892) bear some thematic resemblance to the works of Henry James, whose primary interest was in the contrast between American and European ways of life. Fuller's first two books appealed to the genteel tastes of cultivated New Englanders such as Charles Eliot Norton and James Russell...

Henry Blake Fuller (January 9, 1857 - July 28, 1929) was a United States novelist and short story writer, born in Chicago, Illinois. Career-Fuller's earliest works were travel romances set in Italy that featured allegorical characters. Both The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani (1890) and The Chatelaine of La Trinite (1892) bear some thematic resemblance to the works of Henry James, whose primary interest was in the contrast between American and European ways of life. Fuller's first two books appealed to the genteel tastes of cultivated New Englanders such as Charles Eliot Norton and James Russell...