Educated in local schools in Chicago and Wisconsin, Fuller developed an interest in art and architecture and spent a year travelling in Europe. He published his first novel, Chevalier of Pansieri-Vani, in 1890 under a pseudonym. It was well-received and convinced Fuller to continue writing. In 1892, he published The Chatelaine of La Trinite, another novel dealing with his European experiences. Disillusioned by the skyscraper trend then emerging in his native Chicago, He published The Cliff Dwellers in 1893, dealing with people having to live in these high-rise buildings. Fuller is credited with having published the first American play which dealt with homosexual issues, At Saint Judas's in 1896. In 1899, he privately printed The New Flag, a scathing attack on the McKinley Administration for its aggression in the Spanish-American War. In 1901, he helped to establish the book review section of the Chicago Evening Post. In 1912, he became a member of the advisory committee of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse/ His other works include With the Procession (1895), Under the Skylights (1901), Waldo Trench and Others (1908), Lines Long and Short (1917), On the Stairs (1918), Bertram Cope's Year (1919) and Gardens of the World (1929). |
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