With its usual impassivity, the Library of America has reissued a strange and awkward book, Theodore Dreiser’s nine-hundred-and-thirty-page realist epic of 1925, “An American Tragedy.” ...

L. Mencken wrote in 1917, ”Dreiser stands up-a phenomenon unescapably visible, but disconcertingly hard to explain.” He still does, and he still is. Since his time we have had Fitzgerald and ...

THE publishers of The Bulwark (Doubleday, $2.75) announce with truth that this posthumous work is the first novel by Theodore Dreiser to appear in twenty years. As one toils through its cumbrous ...

August 27 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of writer Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. Dreiser was the author of a number of the most important American novels ever written ...

Guests examined the history of the Progressive Era, the publishing industry, and social reform through the writings of Theodore Dreiser. He … read more Guests examined the history of the ...

the year of 1943, and I was standing in front of the white stucco house of Theodore Dreiser. I was waiting for somebody to answer the door. The house appeared to be both withdrawn and preoccupied.

I lifted my credit card into view. Like a bird trying to catch its own tune, he asked again: “Do you like Theodore Dreiser?” “Yes,” I stammered. An ecstasy of shared delight spread across ...

Author Theodore Dreiser claimed that "Indiana," composed in 1917, drew too heavily on the lyrics and music from his brother's 1897 song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away," and he demanded that ...

Dreiser’s statement said, in part: “I make a distinction between classes. I draw a distinction between the Jewish worker and the Jewish exploiter. Everybody knows that I am an anti-capitalist ...