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, including ...

Theodore Dreiser’s novel is about a young woman who moves to the big city, where she chases her own American Dream.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. But then it is a good deal easier to make fun of Theodore Dreiser’s prose style than it is to account for his ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

THE STOIC (310 pp.)—Theodore Dreiser—Doubleday ($3). Among the thousands of words the late Theodore Dreiser left behind are the 134,000 that went into this novel, which his publishers say is to be the ...

People read novels for many varying reasons. They look to novels for information, wisdom, beauty, romantic inspiration, and diversion: sometimes for all these things at once, sometimes for one of ...

When Theodore Dreiser died, scarcely five years age, at the age of seventy-five, he left behind him a long, uneven, and controversial career that included thousands of pages of literary make shift and ...

Money was Theodore Dreiser’s muse—the dazzling, deforming pivot on which his novels about fallen women and venal businessmen turned. It seems almost karmic, then, that a lack of money saved him from ...

Noted author Theodore Dreiser lived in Glendale twice during his writing career. The first time, around 1919, he began sketching out the beginnings of his famous book “An American Tragedy.” Dreiser ...