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A Short Biography of Theodore Dreiser

Author Name:

Theodore Dreiser

Born As:

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser

Other Names:

Theodore Dreiser

Born:

27 Aug 1871

Died:

28 Dec 1945




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Novelist, editor and naturalist                          
Selected Works;

Fiction:

Sister Carrie - 1900
Old Rogaum and His Theresa - 1901
Jennie Gerhardt - 1911
The Financier - 1912
The Titan - 1914
The Lost Phoebe - 1914
The "Genius" - 1915
Plays of the Natural and Supernatural - 1916
Free and Other Stories - 1918
The Hand of the Potter - 1918
Twelve Men - 1919
An American Tragedy - 1925
Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories - 1927
A Gallery of Women - 1929
The Bulwark - 1946
The Stoic - 1947

Nonfiction:

A Traveler at Forty - 1913
A Hoosier Holiday - 1916
Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life - 1920
A Book About Myself - 1922; republished - unexpurgated as Newspaper Days - 1931
The Color of a Great City - 1923
Dreiser Looks at Russia - 1928
My City - 1929
Tragic America - 1931
Dawn - 1931
America Is Worth Saving - 1941                          
Mother Sarah Dreiser
Father John Paul Dreiser, Theodore was the twelvth of thirteen children. Only ten children survived.
Wife Sara White