Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...addition to selections from Matthiessen's book, "From the Heart of Europe," and a chapter from his biography of Theodore Dreiser, which he had nearly completed at the time of his death, the memorial issue contains personal reminiscences and sketches by more than a score of his friends and associates...
Matthiessen was an expert on Melville and Hawtherne, as well as Dreiser...
This taut little novel takes a sharp look at one of the oldest problems in literature: the origins and consequences of a crime of passion. Like Theodore Dreiser in An American Tragedy, though on a far more modest scale, Novelist Foote has tried to find out and explain why a peaceable, inoffensive man can sometimes be driven to murder. He has set his story in his native Mississippi among the poor-white farmers and the small-town characters he intimately knows...
...Communist-inspired Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, spoke up for the eleven Communist leaders convicted in Judge Harold Medina's court. For a while his name made headlines. But recently, on leave from Harvard, he had been silent, busy with a new book on Theodore Dreiser...
...appointed professor in 1942, and for the last several years he has been secretary of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature. During the present academic year he has been on sabbatical leave, working on a biography of Theodore Dreiser...