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Theodore Dreiser was arguably the most important figure in the development of fiction in the twentieth century. In this Library of America volume are presented the first two novels and a little-known collection of biographical sketches by the man about whom H. L. Mencken said, American writing, before and after his time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. Dreiser grew up poor in a series of small Indiana towns, in a large German Catholic family dominated by his fathers religious fervor. At seventeen he moved to Chicago and eventually became a newspaper reporter there and in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and New York. Reaction to his first book, Sister Carrie (1900), was not encouraging, and after suffering a nervous breakdown, he went on to a successful career editing magazines. In 1910 he resumed writing, and over the next fifteen years published fourteen volumes of fiction, drama, travel, autobiography, and essays. Dreisers first great novel, Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman, Sinclair Lewis declared in his Nobel Prize a

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Author

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

Publisher

Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press; Library of America, The; Distributed by Penguin Books USA

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780940450417

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14