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 ...

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 ...

THE publishers of The Bulwark (Doubleday, $2.75) announce with truth that this posthumous work is the first novel by Theodore Dreiser to appear in twenty years. As one toils through its cumbrous pages ...

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 ...