![]() ![]() Tragic America (1931) was a volume of Dreiser’s essays devoted to the situation in the US following the Wall Street Crash. In Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928), the writer chronicled his 1927 visit to the Soviet Union. ![]() The last-named was his crowning achievement, perhaps the most perceptive work of fiction ever written about the pursuit of the “American Success Dream” and its devastating social and psychic consequences.ĭreiser also wrote journalism, short stories and a number of fascinating memoirs, including A Book About Myself (1922, later republished as Newspaper Days, 1931) and Dawn (1931). Dreiser was the author of a number of the most important American novels ever written, including Sister Carrie (1900), Jennie Gerhardt (1911), The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914) and An American Tragedy (1925). August 27 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of writer Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. ![]()
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