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Theodore Dreisser's depictions of that same suffering, Alfred Kazin asserts in his effective essay defending the novelist, was rejected by priggish "elderly virgins of the newspapers." Kazin's thesis that Dreiser has been the victim of vacillating American literary taste, is well-argued and convincing...
Died. Helen Richardson Dreiser, 61, widow of Novelist Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie), author of My Life with Dreiser; of a heart attack, after being bedridden since 1951: in Portland...
Pioneer epics dote on heroes who can tame the land but not themselves. In The Tree of Man, the primitive Australian back country tames, tempers and sorely tries a Job-like settler. Stan Parker is the kind of harassed hero O'Neill and Dreiser used to delight in-the simple, inarticulate man groping his way towards the meaning of life while fate trips him up with distressing regularity. And like O'Neill and Dreiser, Australian-born Author White (Happy Valley, The Aunt's Story) more often drags than carries the reader with him through Stan...
...total of three Bowdoin Prizes while completing the manuscript for The Dream of Success. But it would seem on first glance that he has wasted his ability on a collection of early twentieth century writers who are rapidly becoming obscure. Of his five novelists, only Jack London and Theodore Dreiser have achieved any sort of place in literature, while the following of David Graham Phillips, Frank Norris, and Robert Herrick is meagre at best...
With London and Dreiser, particularly, Lynn has developed a previously unexpressed thesis. He has done so in a convincing fashion through close analysis of each novelist's lives and works. His own work thus proves increasingly effective because he chose "uncharacteristic" men with which to deal...