Dreiser was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best-known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
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culture · American novelist and journalist (1871–1945) · writer · journalist · novelist · essayist · autobiographer · screenwriter · editor · also Theodore Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser, Dreiser
Born 27 August 1871 · Died 28 December 1945 · Q486096
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1945· 1 entry
Died 1945-12-28.
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1944· 1 entry
Dreiser and Helen married on June 13, 1944, his first wife Sara having died in 1942.
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1930· 1 entry
Was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Swedish author Anders Österling, but was passed over by the Nobel Committee in favor of Sinclair Lewis
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1919· 1 entry
Dreiser met his cousin Helen Patges Richardson (1894–1955) with whom he began an affair
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1916· 1 entry
“I wrote the first verse and chorus”
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1913· 1 entry
Began a romantic relationship with the actress and painter Kyra Markham
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1909· 2 entries
They separated in 1909, partly due to Dreiser's infatuation with Thelma Cudlipp, the teenage daughter of a colleague, but were never formally divorced.
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Partly due to Dreiser's infatuation with Thelma Cudlipp, the teenage daughter of a colleague, but were never formally divorced
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1901· 1 entry
Dreiser's short story "Nigger Jeff" was published in Ainslee's Magazine
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1895· 1 entry
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
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1892· 1 entry
Dreiser started work as a reporter and drama critic for newspapers in Chicago, St
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1871· 1 entry
Born 1871-08-27.
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