Dreiser

American  

[drahy-ser, -zer] / ˈdraɪ sər, -zər /

noun

1. Theodore, 1871–1945, U.S. novelist.

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Dreiser British  

/ -zə, ˈdraɪsə /

noun

1. Theodore ( Herman Albert ). 1871–1945, US novelist; his works include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925)

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Example Sentences

A novel by U.S. author Theodore Dreiser about a jailed tycoon peaked out from his pocket.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a 1919 review of a pair of books by Theodore Dreiser, Virginia Woolf issued some exquisitely backhanded praise for the Indiana-born author, whose writing, she thought, stood out for its roughness and vitality.

From The Wall Street Journal

He has been reading Theodore Dreiser novels including “The Titan,” part of a trilogy about a ruthless businessman.

From The Wall Street Journal

She read modernist poetry; he favored the laborious historical-realist fiction deemed acceptable by the socialist left: John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Howard Fast.

From Salon

Scott called it “long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt.”

From New York Times