He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.

S. Cyril with future Egyptologist Richard Anthony Parker. On the 100th anniversary of Farrell's birth Norman Mailer was a panelist at the New York Public Library's "James T.

James Thomas Farrell (February 27 1904 - August 22 1979) was an American novelist. One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy which was made into a film in 1960 and into a television miniseries in 1979.