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An intimate view of Theodore Dreiser's exchanges with women

Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Editorial Note LETTERS Index

About the Author

Thomas P. Riggio is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and the general editor of The Dreiser Edition for the University of Illinois Press.

Reviews

"This collection provides an intimate, unfiltered exposure to Dreiser that simply cannot be replicated by a biographer. Any research library would need to own this book." Nancy Shawcrosss, curator of manuscripts at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania "I know of no volume of correspondence organized in this way, concentrating on a male writer's letters to the important women in his life. We hear a new voice from Dreiser here, his voice with women - intuitive, emotional, sympathetic, and understanding." James L. W. West III, editor of scholarly editions of Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt "Dreiser's need to unburden himself to women extends throughout his lifetime. His passion and enthusiasm - for women and for ideas - diminish little over fifty years... Riggio's admirable collection, assisted by useful footnotes, brings light new and important information not only on Dreiser, but on the difficulties of earning a living as a writer in early twentieth-century America. " Deborah Clarke, Times Literary Supplement