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Theodore Dreiser - Naturalism, Novels, Journalism: Dreiser’s first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), is a work of pivotal importance in American literature despite its inauspicious launching. It became a beacon to subsequent American writers whose allegiance was to the realistic treatment of any and all subject matter.
Oct 29, 2013 · Although Dreiser is criticized for his cumbersome style, his compelling characters and narratives continue to fascinate readers, and his importance to early 20th-century American literature is undeniable.
Theodore Dreiser was an American author of naturalist fiction. Censorship and bans accompanied him all his life. His works were burned in Nazi Germany in 1933.
Writer Theodore Dreiser, late in life. A practitioner of American realism, Dreiser explored such themes as the lure of urban environments, the conflict between Old World parents and their Americanized children, and the hollowness of the American drive for material success.
Apr 13, 2003 · David Denby on “An American Tragedy,” Theodore Dreiser’s nine-hundred-and-thirty-page realist novel about crime and the moral weakness of the rich.
Theodore Dreiser, (born Aug. 27, 1871, Terre Haute, Ind., U.S.—died Dec. 28, 1945, Hollywood, Calif.), U.S. novelist. Born to poor German immigrant parents, Dreiser left home at age 15 for Chicago. He worked as a journalist, and in 1894 he moved to New York, where he had a successful career as a magazine editor and publisher.
Theodore Dreiser and Sara Osborne White were married in 1898. Dreiser cheated on his wife often. In the year 1900, Dreiser's first book, Sister Carrie, was published by Doubleday; through the publisher did nothing to promote the book. One of Doubleday's editors, however, worked with Dreiser, and eventually published a heavily edited version of ...
