Theodore Dreiser

Lingeman's award-winning, two-volume biography Theodore Dreiser has been hailed by critics everywhere. Now abridged in a single volume paperback edition, this biography captures all the controversy, contradictions and bravado of the writer who blazed the trail of realism in 20th-century American fiction. Photographs.

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Comprehensive edition of the definitive Dreiser biography. Tells the story of his writer's crisis after the initial failure of Sister Carrie and how he survived it to become one of the most influential American writers. Offers glimpses of journalism in the pre-Yellow and Yellow eras and of 20th century literary tides and social crosscurrents. Chronicles Dreiser's personal history through the backdrop of America in the age of enterprise and the age of progressivism.