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...THEODORE DREISER: APOSTLE OF NATURE (354 pp.)-Robert H. Ellas-Knopf...
When a friend read Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, he asked him where he could have picked up so much knowledge about life. Said 39-year-old Author Dreiser: "Genius, I suppose." As Robert Elias' biography shows, it was a lot more complicated, and more painful, than that...
University Theater (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). Dramatization of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy...
...Helen Choate Bell Prize will be divided between Stanley J. Friedman '48 of Brooklyn, New York and Adams House and Cyrus I. Harvey, Jr. '47 of Boston and Winthrop House. Friedman submitted an essay entitled "Theodore Dreiser and the Dispossessed," while Harvey's was entitled "Winesburg, Ohio: A Reinterpretation...
Absent from the Great Critics sessions was the sage of Baltimore, Critic H. L. Mencken. But over a beer, Mencken peppered the visitors with a shakerful of critical opinions. Sample: "The thing about Theodore Dreiser always was his enormous unintelligence. He reached heights of unintelligence as great as any of the heights of intelligence that Aristotle achieved...