Theodore Dreiser

Interviews
Author: Edited by Frederic E. Rusch and Donald Pizer
Up close and personal with a vibrant iconoclast
Cloth – $54
978-0-252-02943-1
Publication Date
Cloth: 12/20/2004
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About the Book

Hardly shy about himself or his work, Theodore Dreiser knew the value of publicity. Over four decades he often consented to interviews, answering questions about his fiction, his politics, and even previous interviews.

Throughout his life Dreiser raised a storm of protest with his realistic novels, blistered public figures and other authors with untempered criticism, scorned pieties masking brutality in law and economics, and expressed a few contradictions of his own.

This volume collects for the first time more than seventy interviews. As a group, they show Dreiser dealing with an array of literary and social issues, as well as his lifelong incapacity to mince words. Dreiser is revealed in these interviews as a public figure of epic proportions.