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Theodore Dreiser (Herman Theodore Dreiser) was born on 27 August, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, is a writer,actor. Discover Theodore Dreiser's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

Popular As Herman Theodore Dreiser
Occupation writer,actor
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 27 August 1871
Birthday 27 August
Birthplace Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Date of death 28 December, 1945
Died Place Hollywood, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Who Is Theodore Dreiser's Wife?

His wife is Helen Patges Richardson (1944 - 28 December 1945) ( his death), Sara Osborne White (1898 - 1942) ( her death)

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Wife Helen Patges Richardson (1944 - 28 December 1945) ( his death), Sara Osborne White (1898 - 1942) ( her death)
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Theodore Dreiser Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Theodore Dreiser worth at the age of 74 years old? Theodore Dreiser’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from United States. We have estimated Theodore Dreiser's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

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1871

Born on August 27, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana, he was the twelfth of thirteen children Born to John Paul & Sarah Dreiser, ten of whom survived infancy. Theordore's Dreiser's father, John, was a German immigrant and a strict Baptist. His mother Sarah came from a Mennonite community who later converted to Roman Catholicism. His older brother Paul Dresser became a famous songwriter.

1889

Theodore Dreiser attended Indiana University from 1889 to 1890, but flunked out and became a journalist in Chicago and St. Louis.

1898

He married the former Sara White in 1898, but the marriage failed and they separated in 1909. Dreiser never divorced his wife.

1900

His first novel "Sister Carrie" was published in 1900. It is considered a classic and a seminal piece of American literature. The publisher did not promote the novel, likely due to its controversial subject matter (adultery, extramarital sex), and the book sold poorly.

1920

Theodore Dreiser was one of the great American writers, and a transitional figure between Victorian America and the "modern" age that was inaugurated after the cessation of hostilities after WWI and the publication of Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street" in 1920. A naturalist with a committed social conscience (Dreiser was a socialist in a time when socialists were an established third party and had many mayoral posts and seats in state legislatures before the post-WWI "Red Scare" wiped out socialism in the U. S. ), Theodore Dreiser is a seminal figure in the evolution of American letters to a more mature literature.

1925

He did not score a best-seller for a quarter-of-century, until "An American Tragedy" in 1925.

1931

Famously slapped Sinclair Lewis several times at a party in 1931 after Lewis refused to recant his accusation that Dreiser's book "Dreiser Looks at Russia" contained sentences copied almost verbatim from "The New Russia", which was written by Lewis' wife, Dorothy Thompson.

1944

Theodore Dreiser married his second cousin Helen Richardson on June 13, 1944.

1951

(The novel was made into George Stevens 1951 masterpiece A Place in the Sun (1951).