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Dreiser

[ drahy-ser, -zer ]

noun

  1. Theodore, 1871–1945, U.S. novelist.


Dreiser

/ -zə; ˈdraɪsə /

noun

  1. DreiserTheodore (Herman Albert)18711945MUSWRITING: novelist Theodore ( Herman Albert ). 1871–1945, US novelist; his works include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925)


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Cozzens, largely forgotten these days, was a 20th-century realist writer in the mode of Theodore Dreiser.

But it was the Germanophile and American author Theodore Dreiser who diagnosed the future of Europe.

Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and later began his journalism career in Chicago.

In Abbott's hands, however, this tabloid fare becomes distilled Dreiser.

Interesting psychical material is found in a new volume of plays by Theodore Dreiser.

The place of Dreiser in our literature is frequently challenged, and often violently, but never successfully.

The Dreiser books, like their predecessors that I discuss here, reveal the curious unevenness of the author.

One day, in September, 1899, Dreiser took a sheet of yellow paper and wrote a title at random.

The two had met while Henry was city editor of the Blade, and Dreiser a reporter looking for a job.

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dreikanterDreiser, Theodore