In his autobiography, Dawn ( 1931 ), Dreiser mentions the caving expeditions organized by Indiana University’s geological department, which he joined at the advice of fellow student Russell Sutcliffe. Unknown photographer, Dreiser with Indiana University Cavers, 1890. As he was drifting into political activism, be became a staunch antifascist, advocate for labor rights and civil rights, as well as a supporter of communist Russia, joining the Communis t Party five months before his death i n Hollywood, California, on December 28, 1945. After leaving his wife and dedicating himself to his own version of polyamory (he called it “ varietism ”), Dreiser enjoyed his first significant success with An American Tragedy (1928), a novel inspired by the 1906 murder of Grace Brown. Louis and Pittsburgh, he worked for his brother Paul Dre i ser’s music publishing firm and eventually as a free-lance writer, producing novels such as Sister Carrie (1900) and Jennie Gerhardt (1902) that with their focus on the character-determining force of the environment strained the limits of bourgeois acceptability. After stints as a journalist in Chicago, St. He attended Indiana University Bloomington from 1889-1890 before dropping out. Born in 1871 in Terre Haute to German immigrant father and converted Mennonite mother.
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