Author Theodore Dreiser claimed that "Indiana," composed in 1917, drew too heavily on the lyrics and music from his brother's 1897 song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away," and he demanded that ...

When Theodore Dreiser died, scarcely five years age, at the age of seventy-five, he left behind him a long, uneven, and controversial career that included thousands of pages of literary make shift ...

In trying to explain the popularity of novelist Theodore Dreiser, the literary critic Lionel Trilling proposed that it had something to do with Americans’ sense of reality. Trilling concluded that, ...