The events of Yerkes ' life served as a blueprint for the Theodore Dreiser novels, The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic, in which Yerkes was fictionalized as Frank Cowperwood.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945 ) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Sarah and John Paul Dreiser, a strict Catholic family.

John Paul Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Eifel region, and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio ; she was disowned for marrying John and converting to Roman Catholicism.

Politically, Dreiser was involved in several campaigns against social injustice.

Dreiser was a committed socialist, and wrote several non-fiction books on political issues.

Disheartened by this failure, Fort burnt the manuscripts, but was soon renewed to begin work on the book that would change the course of his life, The Book of the Damned ( 1919 ) which Dreiser helped to get into print.

Theodore Dreiser is considered one of America ’ s greatest naturalists, notable because he was part of the early stages of the naturalist movement.

Lydon said that Dreiser ’ s intent was to focus on the message of Sister Carrie, not on its writing style.

Theodore Dreiser ’ s Sister Carrie was not widely accepted after it was published, although it was not completely withdrawn by its publishers, as some sources say it was.

Neither was it received with the harshness that Dreiser reported.

This shows us that Dreiser was his own worst critic, exaggerating the negative report about his book to one of complete rejection.

There is also the receipt of sale that was sent to Dreiser that shows that Sister Carrie was not withdrawn off of the shelves.

In opposition, one critic, Karl F. Zender, argued that Dreiser ’ s stress on circumstance over character was “ adequate neither to the artistic power nor to the culture implications of Sister Carrie ”.

This toleration of immorality was an entirely new idea for the readers of Dreiser ’ s era.

Dresser, the elder brother of novelist Theodore Dreiser, was a popular songwriter of the turn of the 20th century.

Loos had become a devoted admirer of H. L. Mencken and when he was in New York, she would take a break from her " Tuesday Widows ", and join his circle which included Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Hergesheimer, essayist Ernest Boyd, and theater critic George Jean Nathan.

He often entertained literary figures like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Aldous Huxley, Ferenc Molnár, and close friend Somerset Maugham, as well.

Dreiser has often been critiqued for his writing style.

In November 1931, Dreiser led the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners ( NCDPP ) to the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky, where they took testimony from coal miners in Pineville and Harlan on the pattern of violence against the miners and their unions by the coal operators known as the Harlan County War.

Sister Carrie went against social norms of the time with its supposed immorality, as Dreiser presented his characters without judging them.

Dreiser fought against censorship of Sister Carrie, a main issue being that the titular character engaged in affairs and other “ illicit sexual relationships ” without suffering any consequences.

Their road is long but, because of him, those who follow will never have to face the road through the wilderness of Puritan denial, the road that Dreiser faced alone.

The influence of Theodore Dreiser and the Russians ( Chekhov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy ) were discounted by the author, the former for stylistic reasons, the latter because he had apparently not read them prior to writing his book.

How easy to pick some of his books to pieces, to laugh at him for so much of his heavy prose ... he fellows of the ink-pots, the prose writers in America who follow Dreiser, will have much to do that he has never done.

Yet there still remained some who disapproved of Dreiser ’ s immoral, atypical story line.

Figures such as Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Duranty, Sir Bernard Pares, Harold Laski, D. N. Pritt, Theodore Dreiser and Romain Rolland were accused of being dupes of Stalin and apologists for his regime for various comments they had made denying, excusing, or justifying various aspects of the purges.

Mencken believed that Dreiser ’ s raw, honest portrayal of Carrie ’ s life should be seen as a courageous attempt to give the reader a realistic view of the life of women in the nineteenth century.

David E. E. Sloan argued that Dreiser ’ s novel undermines the general consensus that hard work and virtue bring about success in life.

* Marriage ; Short Stories of Married life by American Writers, Tarkington, Cutting, Hergesheimer, Miller, Street, Delano, Norris, Gale, Harrison, Kelland, Hopper, Adams, Butler, Foster, Hughes, Dreiser, Cooper, Turner, Webster, Lincoln.

Theodore Dreiser wrote an account of his brother's life in his book Twelve Men, published in 1919.

Mencken's love of women was driven in part by the sympathy he had for female literary characters ( especially those brought to life by his friend Theodore Dreiser ), as well as his almost fanatic love of his mother.

It has also been criticized by James Joyce, William Blake, and Theodore Dreiser who all rejected a life without striving.

Dreiser claimed to have collected such stories every year between 1895 and 1935.

It became a leading market for fiction, featuring such authors as Annie Besant, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton.

Most streets in the community are named after notable historical personalities such as Earhart Lane for Amelia Earhart, Einstein Loop for Albert Einstein, Casals Place for Pablo Casals and Dreiser Loop for Theodore Dreiser.

In subsequent years through the success of the Olympia Muldoon would again gain national notice as he treated such notables there as U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Hodges Choate, publisher Ralph Pulitzer, Senator Chauncey Depew, Major General J. Franklin Bell, essayist Elbert Hubbard novelist Theodore Dreiser and Secretary of State Elihu Root, who was sent to Muldoon by President Roosevelt.

Like other American writers such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis and Willa Cather, Hemingway worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist.

Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. ( Born Johann Paul Dreiser, Jr .; April 22, 1857 – January 31, 1906 ) was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

This excited Eisenstein, who had read and liked the work, and had met Dreiser at one time in Moscow.

* December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( b. 1871 )

* August 27 – Theodore Dreiser, American writer ( d. 1945 )

In 1919 Dreiser met his cousin Helen Richardson with whom he began an affair with sado-masochistic elements.

Dreiser c. 1910s

Already in 1892, when Dreiser began work as a newspaperman he had begun " to observe a certain type of crime in the United States that proved very common.

Though primarily known as a novelist, Dreiser published his first collection of short stories, Free and Other Stories in 1918.

Dreiser also wrote poetry.

Dreiser died on December 28, 1945 in Hollywood at the age of 74.

Dreiser had an enormous influence on the generation that followed his.