BIOGRAPHY THEODORE DREISER

For further reading: Theodore Dreiser by B. Rascoe (1926); Forgotten Frontiers: Dreiser and the Land of the Free by D. Dudley (1933); Theodore Dreiser: Apostle of Nature by R.H. Elias (1949); Theodore Dreiser by F.O. Matthiessen (1951); The Stature of Theodore Dreiser, ed. by C. Shapiro and A. Kazin (1955); Theodore Dreiser by P.L. Gerber (1964); Dreiser by W.A. Swanberg (1965); Theodore Dreiser by M. Thader (1965); Theodore Dreiser: His World and His Novels by R. Lehan (1969); Homage to Theodore Dreiser by R.P. Warren (1971); Theodore Dreiser by J. Lundquist (1974); Theodore Dreiser: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography by D. Pizer (1975); The Novels of Theodore Dreiser by D. Pizer (1977); Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871-1907 by Richard Lingeman (1986); The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel by Arun Mukherjee (1987); After Eden by Conrad Eugene Ostwalt (1990); Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey 1908-1945 by Richard Lingeman (1991); Dearest Wilding by Yvette Eastmaned, ed. by Thomas P. Riggio (1995); Love That Will Not Let Me Go, ed. by Marguerite Tjader (1998); An American Tragedy by Paul A. Orlov (1998); Dreiser and Veblen Saboteurs of the Status Quo by Clare Virginia Eby (1999); Reading the Sympton by Mohamed Zanyani (1999) - See also: H.L. Mencken

Selected works:

SISTER CARRIE, 1900 - film 1952, dir. by William Wyler, starring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones. "A famous satirical novel is softened into an unwieldy narrative with scarcely enough dramatic power to sustain interest despite splendid production values. Heavy pre-release cuts remain obvious, and the general effect is depressing; but it it very good to look at." (Halliwell's Film Guide, 1987)

JENNIE GERHARDT, 1911 - suom. - film 1933, dir. by Marion Gering, starring Sylvia Sidney, Donald Cook, Mary Astor

THE FINANCIER, 1912

THE TITAN, 1914

THE "GENIUS", 1915

A HOSIER HOLIDAY, 1916

PLAYS OF THE NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL, 1916

FREE AND OTHER STORIES, 1918

THE HAND OF THE POTTER, 1918

TWELVE MEN, 1919

HEY-RUB-A-DUB-DUB, 1920

A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF, 1922

THE COLOUR OF A GREAT CITY, 1923

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, 1925 - Amerikkalainen murhenдytelmд - film in 1931, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Phillips Holmes and Sylvi Sidney. "It is the first time, I believe, that the subjects of sex, birth control and murder have been put into a picture with sense, taste and reality." (Pare Lorentz) - A Place in the Sun, 1951, dir. by George Stevens, starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor

MOODS, CADENCED AND DECLAIMED, 1926

CHAINS, 1927

DREISER LOOKS AT RUSSIA, 1928

A GALLERY OF WOMEN, 1929

EPITAPH, 1929

MY CITY, 1929