American Literature
and literary criticism. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales (1867) was one of his first major works. The same year he became editor of the literary
journal The Overland Monthly where his famous stories of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1870) brought him widespread fame. Plain Language from
Truthful James (1870) followed. He was no sooner a member of the literati in San Francisco when he and his family decided to head east again and
settled in Boston. His wellearned positive reviews and accolades preceded him and he was soon wellacquainted with New England authors Ralph
Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others. It also greatly helped that the journal Atlantic Monthly had contracted him for a
year's worth of writing with a whopping advance of $10,000. He fulfilled his end of the deal finally though he was often late in submitting articles and
his publisher William Dean Howells was not impressed. And his readers were turning elsewhere
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