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. At seventeen he moved to Chicago and eventually became a newspaper reporter there and in St. Mencken said, “American writing, before and after his time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin.”ĭreiser grew up poor in a series of small Indiana towns, in a large German Catholic family dominated by his father’s religious fervor. 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. Theodore Dreiser was arguably the most important figure in the development of fiction in the twentieth century.
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