theodore dreiser

     

This author of "An American Tragedy" also wrote a little-read treatise called "Tragic America"

Trivia about theodore dreiser

  • This "Sister Carrie" author modeled the heroine of his novel "Jennie Gerhardt" in part on his sister Mame
  • "Hey-Rub-A-Dub-Dub" is a 1920 collection of philosophical essays by this "Sister Carrie" author
  • Shortly after the release of "Sister Carrie", his publisher withdrew it due to the book's "amorality"
  • 'His "tales of failure are his successes, and 'An American Tragedy
  • Published in 1915, "The 'Genius' " is a semi-autobiographical novel by this author of "Sister Carrie"
  • Songwriter Paul Dresser, who changed the spelling of his name, was this "Sister Carrie" author's brother
  • "The Financier" by this author of "Sister Carrie" was inspired by real financier Charles T. Yerkes
  • His 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" was based on a real life murder case
  • His novel "Sister Carrie" was inspired by his own sister Emma, who ran off with a married man
  • "An Amateur Laborer" tells of his unhappy, impoverished period after the publication of "Sister Carrie"
  • "Sister Carrie" (1900)
  • He didn't have a "Sister Carrie" when he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871
  • In his "An American Tragedy", Clyde muses that Roberta "could not swim-- could not swim-- could not swim"
  • "The Prophet" was a pseudonym used by this "Sister Carrie" author on articles & columns
  • Grace Brown, who was killed at Big Moose Lake, inspired Roberta Alden, who drowns in his "An American Tragedy"

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