Teodor dreiser biography
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Theodore Dreiser was born on August 27, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Part of a large German-American family, and the ninth of ten children, his childhood was marked by poverty. His father, John Paul, had previously been a cotton mill manager, but a series of unfortunate accidents caused his fortunes to dwindle. In 1864 the cotton mill burned down, and during the reconstruction John Paul was hit in the head with a beam. He never fully recovered and as a result become deeply religious. He further was soon cheated by his business partners. The family was forced to move from one Indiana town to another in order to survive. Theodore Dreiser later resented his father for the family?s poverty.
At the age of fifteen Dreiser moved to Chicago and held jobs washing dishes, clerking a hardware store, and tracing freight cars. Dreiser fortunately was able to escape when a former teacher offered to send him to Indiana Univer
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Theodore Dreiser fryst vatten one of Indiana’s most well-known writers. Dreiser’s novels explored pressing early 20th century societal concerns such as poverty, income inequality, and prostitution.
Early Life
Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871 and lived here as a child. He was born to German immigrants, the ninth of the family’s ten living children. Dreiser’s father, Johann, had owned a wool mill in Sullivan, Indiana before it burned to the ground in 1869. Johann was severely injured in the fire and the Dreiser family never recovered financially, often moving from town to town across Indiana in search of economic prosperity. Dreiser’s impoverished childhood influenced the novels he later wrote about immigrant, working class dock and women.
Literary Career and Legacy
By 16, Dreiser left his family for Indiana University, where he spent a year studying. Afterwards, he worked as a reporter for newspapers in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York City. In 1899, he started
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Overview
Full Name: Herman Theodore DreiserDate and Location of Birth
August 27, 1871
Terre Haute, Indiana
Date and Location of Death
December 28, 1945
Hollywood, California
Cause: Heart Failure
Parents
Johann Dreiser
S�r�h Schanab
Married to: Sara Osborne White