Dreiser
Americannoun
noun
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Dreiser “is not himself by any means a great writer,” Woolf concluded, “but he may be the stuff from which, in another hundred years or so, great writers will be born.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Theodore Dreiser raised the question “Americanitis—Can It Be Cured?” in The Delineator, a women’s fashion magazine he edited.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
Mark Twain, William Dean Howells and Theodore Dreiser, born in Missouri, Ohio and Indiana, respectively, were products of that culture, as was Willa Cather, who came of age in Nebraska.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
His directness, along with his sense of characters’ subjectivity, felt new in the era following Henry James and Theodore Dreiser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2021
This wasn’t Graetz on Jewish history, he told me, or Minkin on Hasidism, or Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, and Dickens.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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