Theodore Dreiser
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Emerging from a destitute Indiana household, he attended Indiana University briefly before turning to journalism, where he reported for newspapers in Chicago, St. Louis, Toledo, Pittsburgh and New York and contributed literary criticism and interviews with figures such as Carnegie and Edison. By the mid-1900s he edited magazines including Ev’ry Month and The Delineator, gaining financial independe…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources