Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Hoosier Hard Times 2. A Very Bard of a City 3. This Matter of Reporting 4. Survival of the Fittest 5. Editorial Days 6. The Writer 7. Sister Carrie 8. Down Hill and Up 9. Return of the Novelist 10. Life after the Titanic 11. The Genius Himself 12. Back to the Future 13. An American Tragedy 14. Celebrity 15. Tragic America 16. Facing West Selected Works of Theodore Dreiser Abbreviations Notes Index

About the Author

Jerome Loving, Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University, is author of Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself (California, 1999), Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance (1993), and Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story (1986), among other books. He is editor of Frank Norris's McTeague (1995), Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1990), and Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman (1975).

Reviews

"Jerome Loving has produced an immensely readable, lively, detailed account of Theodore Dreiser's life, always with one eye on Dreiser's great books. This is vivid biography, bringing the man very much to life. The streets, the newsrooms, the rented rooms, the yearning of the young Dreiser for money, fame, women, good things in life, keeps reminding the reader of Dreiser's own Carrie and Clyde." - Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire