Dreiser

[ drahy-ser, -zer ]

noun

1. Theodore, 1871–1945, U.S. novelist.

Dreiser

/ -zə; ˈdraɪsə /

noun

1. DreiserTheodore (Herman Albert)18711945MUSWRITING: novelist Theodore ( Herman Albert ). 1871–1945, US novelist; his works include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925)

Example Sentences

She read modernist poetry; he favored the laborious historical-realist fiction deemed acceptable by the socialist left: John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Howard Fast.

From Salon

Scott called it “long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt.”

From New York Times

“The prose style is leaden, but so was Theodore Dreiser’s,” Carolyn See wrote in The Washington Post about the saga.

From Washington Post

Mark Twain, William Dean Howells and Theodore Dreiser, born in Missouri, Ohio and Indiana, respectively, were products of that culture, as was Willa Cather, who came of age in Nebraska.

From Washington Post

Theodore Dreiser is another example of a writer redeemed from stylistic bankruptcy by his enormous imaginative capital.

From New York Times