Theodore Dreiser

Died in 1945

Theodore Dreiser was born in 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana, one of the youngest in a family of ten children, the son of a ruined German weaver and of a mother from a Mennonite family. He grew up amid poverty and repeated moves, left for Chicago at sixteen, spent a year at Indiana University, worked as a dishwasher, then became a journalist. His first novel, poorly defended by its publisher, hardly sold and did not reappear until 1907. Critics often judged his prose heavy. He died in Hollywood in 1945.

In the catalogue 1

NovelAn American TragedyTheodore Dreiser · 1925LiteraturePublic domain