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	Theodore Dreiser
		Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the ninth of ten children.
		Dreiser's schooling was erratic, as the family moved from town to town.
		Dreiser's semi-autobiographical novel THE 'GENIUS' (1915) was censured by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
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	Theodore Dreiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life.
		Dreiser took a job editing women's magazines until he was forced to resign in 1910 because of an intraoffice romance.
		It should be noted that Dreiser is not well-regarded for his style, but for the realism of his work, character development, and his points-of-view on American life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodore_Dreiser (505 words)

	Theodore Dreiser Biography and Summary
		Theodore Dreiser now seems securely established as the principal American novelist in the tradition of naturalistic fiction, which includes his European counterparts Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac.
		Theodore Dreiser's position in American literature is undeniably secure, primarily based on his novels Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
		A journalist turned novelist, Dreiser was at the forefront of the battle for social fact and sexual candor in the early twentieth-century novel, treating popular sentimental and realist subjects with a refreshing lack of moralizing.
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	Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - Theodore Dreiser
		Dreiser’s father was frequently in debt due to failed business ventures, and it was this poor economic and social standing that affected Dreiser’s status as “the foremost creator of those ‘hopeless unfortunates’ [stories]” (Vanausdall 57).
		Dreiser’s frustration with the area is alluded to in an entry describing an early morning walk to a lake in Culver, IN.
		Dreiser’s status as a truly Hoosier author is debatable, but certainly the Indiana environment he experienced during his childhood and adolescence affected the material he was to produce as a famous American author.
	www.bsu.edu /ourlandourlit/Literature/Authors/Dreisert.html (1954 words)

	Salon Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Herman Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Ind., on Aug. 27, 1871.
		DreiserÕs childhood was marred by the downfall of his successful father, John Paul, the manager of a cotton mill.
		Theodore would remain deeply resentful of his father and of the poverty into which he plunged the family.
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	A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia: Preface
		Theodore Dreiser (1986, 1990)—a three-volume collection of his letters, a two-volume collection of his letters to H. Mencken, and a primary and secondary bibliography, last revised in 1991.
		Dreiser lived to be seventy-four and was incredibly prolific over the fifty-three years of his professional life.
		There are also entries on Dreiser’s publishers, on his major influences, on the places and events important to his life, and on the literary and social contexts of his work.
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	MSN Encarta - Theodore Dreiser
		Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945), American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.
		Dreiser continued writing, however, and he served as managing editor of Broadway Magazine from 1906 to 1907 and as editor in chief of Butterick publications from 1907 to 1910.
		Dreiser's last novels, The Bulwark and The Stoic, appeared posthumously, in 1946 and 1947; in 1983 his autobiographical An Amateur Laborer was published.
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	Theodore Dreiser
		Dreiser's novels are prime examples of literary naturalism, with characters driven by selfish motives and influenced by the privileges and limitations of social class.
		Dreiser was a finalist for the Nobel Prize in 1930; when Sinclair Lewis won, he acknowledged Dreiser in his speech.
		Dreiser despaired of ever succeeding as a writer and resigned himself to life as a laborer in the Brooklyn slums.
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	AllRefer.com - Theodore Dreiser (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Terre Haute, Ind. A pioneer of naturalism in American literature, Dreiser wrote novels reflecting his mechanistic view of life, a concept that held humanity as the victim of such ungovernable forces as economics, biology, society, and even chance.
		Dreiser was born into a large and poor family.
		Dreiser distributed it himself, but it was consistently attacked as immoral; it was reissued in 1982 with many passages from his revised typescript restored.
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	Fiction: Theodore Dreiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), best known for his novels Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925), was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.
		While Dreiser churned out hackwork for various periodicals, he was reading the deterministic philosophy of Herbert Spencer and the novels of Honore de Balzac, who believed in the evolutionary doctrine that life is a struggle in which instinctive human desires are often in conflict with conventional morality.
		Dreiser's compassion toward his desperate fictional characters was less important to the early readers of his novel than the alleged immorality of his book.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/dreiser.htm (292 words)

	Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
		The instructor should explain that Dreiser was trained as a journalist whose main duty was to record the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a story.
		Dreiser is indicating some things here about the influence of the fourth estate over the administration of justice.
		This story is written in Dreiser's late style, a fragmented, free-association style that attempts to accomplish many of the same things that stream-of-consciousness writers like James Joyce and William Faulkner were trying to do during the 1920s.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dreiser.html (702 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Dreiser, Theodore
		Theodore Dreiser is now regarded as one of the pre-eminent American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, an anatomist of the “American dream”.
		Theodore Dreiser was born in the industrial town of Terre Haute, Indiana on August 27 1871.
		Theodore went on to produce around a hundred articles for popular magazines in the closing years of the century and started to write fiction in 1899, culminating in the publication of Sister Carrie in 1900 and four short stories in 1901.
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Theodore Dreiser
		Theodore Dreiser was born on August 27, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana.
		Dreiser continued his career by publishing The Financier (1912) and The Titan (1914), both of which began his trilogy about the rise of a tycoon.
		Dreiser became a communist in later years, causing his to focus his attention of writing political treatises such as America is Worth Saving (1941).
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	Biography of Theodore Dreiser
		Herman Theodore Dreiser, son of German immigrants, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871.
		Dreiser was a sensitive child, stuttered, and was often humiliated by his family's poverty.
		For a while, Dreiser drifted from job to job; he worked as a driver for a laundry, in a real estate office, and as a collector for a furniture store.
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	Reader's Companion to American History - -DREISER, THEODORE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dreiser was the foremost American literary naturalist and author of two of the most significant works of early-twentieth-century American fiction, Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
		Dreiser went into a decline after the publication of the novel (his unsuccessful marriage to Sara White in 1898 contributed to his breakdown), and it was not until 1904 that he again took up literary work.
		Dreiser always thought of himself as a man of ideas—he had been deeply affected, for example, by Herbert Spencer's evolutionary thought and by Freud's theories—and he devoted the last two decades of his life to philosophical speculation.
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	Theodore Dreiser
		Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871.
		Dreiser was influenced by books by authors such as Charles Edward Russell, David Graham Phillips and Frank Norris.
		I saw something of Theodore Dreiser, who was in Chicago for a while; he said I was the best critic in America; but I had said he was a great novelist, so it was only natural for him to think well of my critical powers.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jdreiser.htm (1200 words)

	Theodore Dreiser
		Dreiser makes additional revisions to the manuscript, eliminating much of the sexual material, and material which portrays Carrie in a more negative light.
		Dreiser is working on his novel based on a 1906 murder in upstate New York (Chester Gillette-Grace Brown) that will eventually become An American Tragedy in 1915.
		Dreiser serves as chairman of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, and organizes a committee to investigate attacks against striking coal miners in Harlan Country Kentucky.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~rsimon/Hum410/Dreiserr.htm (2003 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Theodore Dreiser
		Theodore Dreiser, one of the principal exponents of naturalism in American literature, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871, into a large family of German ancestry.
		Along the way Dreiser received an erratic education in various parochial and public schools; he read voraciously from an early age and was largely self-taught.
		" Theodore Dreiser is a man who, with the passage of time, is bound to loom larger and larger in the awakening aesthetic consciousness of America.
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	American Writers: Theodore Dreiser
		he son of a German immigrant, Dreiser was the ninth of 10 children and grew up in poverty.
		It was followed in 1912 by The Financier, and in 1914 by The Titan, two volumes in a projected trilogy based on the life of the transportation magnate Charles T. Yerkes.
		The 'Genius' (1915), a sprawling semiautobiographical chronicle of Dreiser's numerous love affairs, was censured by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
	www.americanwriters.org /writers/dreiser.asp (352 words)

	Amazon.com: Sister Carrie (Modern Library Classics): Books: Theodore Dreiser,Andrew Delbanco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		How Dreiser managed to capture the feel of his characters' lives is a mystery, but that is what makes this book great literature; it is timeless in its examination of the inner workings of the human soul.
		Dreiser has a melancholy, fatalistic sense that the world may be too vast and impersonal for people to live in it comfortably, and yet his world is vibrantly human as well.
		Author Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) attacked the way women were made to be dependent on men, and his sympathetic portrayal of Carrie was considered highly controversial in 1900.
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	Random House \| Books \| Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
		Dreiser's next novel, The 'Genius' (1915), a highly autobiographical work portraying the artist as Nietzschean superman who lives beyond conventional moral codes, was threatened with censorship.
		Dreiser became increasingly preoccupied with philosophical and political issues during the last two decades of his life.
		Theodore Dreiser died of a heart attack at his home in Hollywood on December 28, 1945.
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	Dreiser, Theodore on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Vicious binaries: gender and authorial paranoia in Dreiser's "Second Choice," Howells' "Editha," and Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." (Theodore Dreiser; William Dean Howell; Ernest Hemingway)
		Theodore Dreiser's behemoth; Reissuing novel that once was a bestseller.(BOOKS)
		Dreiser biography spells out why his "realistic fiction" caught on
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	DREISER MSS. II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		II, 1896-1910, consist of correspondence, pictures, and printed material of Theodore Dreiser, 1871- 1945, novelist, which was preserved by Sara Osborne (White) Dreiser, (Mrs.
		Theodore Dreiser), -1942, and came to the Lilly Library from her niece, Mrs.
		The printed material is composed of clippings of poems and articles by or relating to Dreiser from newspapers and periodicals.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/dreiser2.html (126 words)

	Theodore Dreiser - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Theordore Dreiser (1871-1945), the author of Sister Carrie and The Financier, was known as a naturalist writer, one known for dealing with the sober realities of life.
		Dreiserâ€™s is noted for his lengthy sentence structure and an acute attention to detail.
		Dreiser meant well and a few of his books are pretty good, but he couldn't write his way out of a paper bag.
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	Theodore Dreiser -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Novelist Theodore Dreiser was a leading American figure in the literary movement known as naturalism, which aimed to portray life in a realistic manner and depicted people as victims of blind forces and their own uncontrolled passions.
		The leading writers of this renaissance—Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg—realistically depicted the contemporary urban environment, decrying the loss of traditional rural values in the increasingly industrialized and materialistic...
		Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, was so shocking for its time that the publisher almost refused to publish it.
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	Theodore Dreiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Theodore Dreiser grew up in a poor family with an emotionally distant and morally rigid father.
		Dreiser supported himself from the age of fifteen, spending one year at Indiana University before obtaining a job as a reporter with the Chicago Globe.
		Though Dreiser's reputation is sustained chiefly by long novels, short, compressed tales such as Old Rogaum and His Theresa (1918) can show us the complex textures and motives of literary naturalism in bold relief.
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	Amazon.com: The Financier: Books: Theodore Dreiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Theodore Dreiser's book Financier is deserving of a five-star rating, because it depicts the life of a fearless person with a strong spirit, great strength of will; a person who can bring his dreams into reality.
		Dreiser was able to give a vivid picture of powerful business and people who were able to succeed in it and those who failed.
		Dreiser showed a reader that every human can achieve his/her goal if a person can find his talent and develop it in the right channel.
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	THEODORE DREISER PAPERS, 1933-CA 1940
		Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of John Paul and Sarah (Schanab) Dreiser.
		His older brother, Paul, who changed the family name to Dresser, was the author of several popular songs, notably "On the Banks of the Wabash" and "My Gal Sal." Dreiser was educated in public schools in Warsaw, Indiana, and attended Indiana University.
		Dreiser continued to produce novels, of which the best known were The Titan (1914), The Genius (1917), and An American Tragedy (1924).
	www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/SC0513.html (657 words)

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