Theodore Dreiser (1871\u20131946) has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American literary and cultural history. His fiction played (and still plays) a major role in the vigorous debate over the relationship of art to social reality and political purpose, and his complex and compelling personality has always attracted much attention. From about 1912\u201315 to his death he was often considered the greatest American writer of the period. Theodore Dreiser Recalled collects for the first time commentary on this literary giant by those of his own time who knew him well. The book includes seventy-six recollections by friends, lovers, and literary associates, ranging in time of publication from 1912 to 1995. Presented with both expert and general readers in mind, the book not only clarifies and extends our knowledge of many aspects of Dreiser\u2019s life and career but also makes excellent reading. In their various ways\u2014from H. L. Mencken\u2019s acerbic accounts of their friendship to one of Edgar Lee Masters\u2019s most powerful poems to Kirah Markham\u2019s bittersweet memories of their affair and to Esther McCoy\u2019s compelling narrative of Dreiser\u2019s death\u2014the recollections demonstrate Dreiser\u2019s ability to move others to recall him not only in full detail but with panache.<\/p>\n
“Touching on the entire spectrum of the author\u2019s controversial life and career, Theodore Dreiser Recalled<\/i> is a must read not only for Dreiserians but for anyone interested in a multiperspectival portrayal of a watershed figure in US realism and naturalism.”
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