Theodore Dreiser was one of the most influential American authors
of his generation. His novels and nonfiction narratives, which he
began publishing in his thirties, were controversial for their
gritty realism, sexual frankness, and sympathy for the plight of
underrepresented people.
Theodore Daniel Nostwich was a foremost authority on Theodore
Dresier. He taught at Iowa State University.
Cut by 30,000 words when first published in 1922 as A Book About Myself , this record of Dreiser's early venture into journalism is first published here in its entirety. In his familiar, lumbering style, he recaptures the wide-eyed, naive 20-year-old whose newspaper reporting in Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and New York between 1890 and 1894 destroyed his middle-class morality. Suffused with a sense of wonder at life's mystery and injustice, Newspaper Days offers a lively account of rough-and-tumble journalism, a vivid picture of America's gaudy-corrupt Gilded Age, and a priceless self-portrait of the sentimental, yearning, answer-seeking maverick soon to create Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy . Recommended for all libraries.-- Charles C. Nash, Cottey Coll., Nevada, Mo.
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