name: Theodore Dreiser
birth_date: 1871-08-27 00:00:00
death_date: 1945-12-28 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction
avg_rating: 3.94
ratings_count: 100638
about: Naturalistic novels of American writer and editor Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser portray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces. Value of his portrayed characters lies in their persistence against all obstacles, not their moral code, and literary situations more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency; this American novelist and journalist so pioneered the naturalist school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore... Naturalistic novels of American writer and editor Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser portray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces. Value of his portrayed characters lies in their persistence against all obstacles, not their moral code, and literary situations more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency; this American novelist and journalist so pioneered the naturalist school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore... ...more