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
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
One of our great voices of the Midwest was the early-20th-century novelist Theodore Dreiser.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2021
It was good advice for a man like Dreiser.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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