Dreiser
Americannoun
noun
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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 ● Nov. 7, 2025
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 ● Nov. 26, 2023
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
He tried to warn Dreiser: “If you marry now—and a conventional and narrow woman at that, one older than you, you’re gone.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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