James T. Farrell

James T. Farrell was an American novelist that was best known for the “Studs Lonigan Trilogy.” The author was born to a second-generation working-class Catholic-Irish family from Chicago in 1904.James Farrell his father used to work as a truck driver and for most of the author’s childhood, he struggled to support an ever-growing family of more than fifteen children.Given the hard times, the author’s father sent him to live with his illiterate but relatively comfortable grandparents in Chicago.