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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser as an American novelist and journalist

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American naturalist novelist and journalist. His novels often feature protagonists who have succeeded in achieving their goals despite the lack of a firm moral code and literary situations that resemble naturalistic studies rather than stories of choice. select and agency. Dreiser's most famous novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to John Paul Dreiser and Sarah Maria (née Schanab). John Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Rhine province of Prussia, and Sarah came from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio. Her family rejected her for converting to Roman Catholicism to marry John Dreiser. Theodore was the twelfth of thirteen children (ninth out of ten survivors). Paul Dresser (1857–1906) was one of his older brothers; Paul changed the spelling of his name when he became a famous musician. They were raised as Catholics.

According to Daniels, Dreiser's childhood was characterized by poverty and his father could be harsh. His later novels reflect these experiences.⁴
After graduating from high school in Warsaw, Indiana, Dreiser attended Indiana University in 1889-1890 as an undergraduate. In 1892, Dreiser began working as a journalist and drama critic for newspapers in Chicago, Saint Louis, Toledo, Pittsburgh, and New York. During this period he published his first work of fiction, The Return of Genius, which appeared in the Chicago Daily Globe under the name Carl Dreiser. By 1895 he was writing articles for magazines. He authored articles on writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Israel Zangwill, and John Burroughs and interviewed public figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Marshall Field, Thomas Edison, and Theodore Thomas. His other interviewees included Lillian Nordica, Emilia E. Barr, Philip Armour, and Alfred Stieglitz.
In 1895, Dreiser convinced business associates of his songwriter brother Paul to give him the editorship of a magazine called Ev'ry Month, in which he published his first story, "Forgotten" a tale based on a song of his brother's titled "The Letter That Never Came". Dreiser continued editing magazines, some of which were aimed at a mainly female audience. As Daniels noted, he thereby began to achieve financial independence. During 1899, Dreiser and his first wife Sara stayed with Arthur Henry and his wife Maude Wood Henry at the House of Four Pillars, an 1830s Greek Revival house in Maumee, Ohio. There Dreiser began work on his first novel, Sister Carrie, published in 1900. Unknown to Maude, Henry sold a half-interest in the house to Dreiser to finance a move to New York without her.
In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago), fails to find work that pays a living wage, falls prey to several men, and ultimately achieves fame as an actress. It sold well and was considered controversial due to moral objections to its portrayal of a country girl pursuing her dreams of fame and wealth through relationships with men. The book has gained considerable fame. It has been called "the greatest of all American urban fiction".
In 1901, Dreiser's short story "Jeff Negro" appeared in Ainslee's Magazine. It is based on a hanging he witnessed in 1893.
Her second novel, Jennie Gerhardt, was published in 1911. Her young women as the protagonist describes the social changes of urbanization, when young people move from rural villages to cities.
Dreiser's first commercial success was An American Tragedy, published in 1925. Since 1892, when Dreiser started working as a journalist.
to observe a certain type of crime in the United States has proven to be very common. It seems to stem from the fact that almost all young people have an innate ambition to become someone financially and socially. Fortune-hunting has become a disease with frequent consequences as an quintessential American crime, a form of "murder for money", when the "ambitious young lover of a poorer girl" finds " a girl with more money or status” but may not abandon her first daughter, usually due to pregnancy.
Dreiser claims to have collected such stories annually between 1895 and 1935. He based his novel on the details and background of Chester Gillette's 1906 murder of Grace Brown in upstate New York, the incident attracted the attention of the newspapers. While the novel sold well, it was also criticized for portraying an unscrupulous man guilty of barbaric murder.
Although primarily known as a novelist, Dreiser also wrote short stories, publishing his first anthology of Free and Other Stories in 1918, consisting of 11 stories. His "My Brother Paul" story is a biography of his brother Paul Dresser, who became a famous musician in the 1890s. This story was the basis for the 1942 romantic film My Gal. Sal.
Dreiser also wrote poetry. His poem "The Aspirant" (1929) continues the theme of poverty and ambition: a young man in a dingy room describes his own dreams and those of other tenants, and asks "" why?" Why ? The poem appeared in The Poetry Quartos, collected and printed by Paul Johnston, and published by Random House in 1929. Other works include the Trilogy of Desire, based on the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes, who became a Chicago streetcar magnate. It includes Le Financier (1912), Le Titan (1914) and Le Stoïcien. The last was published after his death in 1947.⁵
Dreiser was the ninth of 10 children alive in a lifelong poverty family that forced him to frequently travel between small towns in Indiana and Chicago in search of a lower cost of living. His father, a German immigrant, was an almost unemployed carpenter who adopted a strict and narrow-minded Roman Catholic religion. Her mother's gentle and benevolent outlook grew out of her Czech Mennonite background. Later as an adult, Dreiser bitterly associated religion with his father's inefficiency and consequent material deprivation, but he still spoke and wrote about his mother with unwavering affection. Dreiser's harsh experience of poverty as a young man and his early desire for wealth and success will become the main themes of his novel, and the misfortunes of his siblings as adults will provide provide more material for him to build his characters. Dreiser's uneven education in public schools and parishes was limited to a year (1889-1890) at Indiana University. He began his career as a journalist in Chicago in 1892 and made his way to the East Coast. While writing for a Pittsburgh newspaper in 1894, he read the works of scientists T.H. Huxley and John Tyndall, while applying the speculations of the philosopher Herbert Spencer. Through these readings and his own experience, Dreiser believes that humans are powerless under the influence of instincts and social forces beyond their control, and he sees human society as a struggle. unequal competition between the strong and the weak. In 1894, Dreiser went to New York, where he worked for several newspapers and contributed to magazines. He married Sara White in 1898, but his wandering affections (and resulting infidelity) caused their relationship to fall apart. The couple finally separated in 1912.

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