2: 669; and L, 3: 946–48.
14. L, 3: 966; Hazel Mack Godwin to TD, April 5, 1936. Godwin is called
“Sylvia Bradshaw” in two earlier biographies.
15. “Abuse for Britain, Dreiser’s Contribution to Anglo-U.S. Amity,” Toronto
Evening Telegram, [September 21, 1942].
16. “Second American Tragedy: Novelist Dreiser Dodges Interview with Re-
porters,” Port Huron Times Herald, September 24, 1942.
17. Unidentified clippings entitled “Dreiser Insult Seen to Merit Pay from
Hun” and “Dreiser’s Anti-British Bile Brings St. Louis Tribute to Britain” (Penn);
Robert M. McIlvaine, “A Literary Source for the Caesarean Section in A Farewell
to Arms, ” American Literature 43 (November 1971): 444–47; and New York PM,
September 27, 1942 (Penn); see also L, 3: 965–66.
18. TD to Thelma Cudlipp Whitman, October 16, 1942; ML, 275; Sara White
Dreiser ( Jug ) to Mrs. Gray, March 19, 1919 (Penn); and Jug to Robert H. Elias,
September 14, 1939 (Cornell).
19. ML, 287; and DML, 2: 685–87, 700.
20. Donald Pizer, The Novels of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Study (Min-
neapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976), 313.
21. Edgar Lee Masters, Across Spoon River (1936; repr. New York: Octagon
Books, 1969), 329–330; and Richard W. Dowell, “Dreiser and Kathleen Mavour-
neen,” DN 2 (Fall 1977): 2–4.
22. Richard Lehan, Theodore Dreiser: His World and His Novels (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1969), 233.
23. Jean West Maury, “A Neighborly Call on Theodore Dreiser,” Boston
Evening Transcript, January 29, 1927; TD to Rufus M. Jones, December 1, 1938
(Haverford College Library), quoted in Gerhard Friedrich, “Theodore Dreiser’s
Debt to Woolman’s Journal, ” American Quarterly 7 ( Winter 1955): 385–92. See
by Rufus M. Jones The Later Periods of Quakerism (London: Macmillan & Co.,
1921), Finding the Trail of Life (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1926), and The
Trail of Life in the Middle Years (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1934); copies of
these volumes are in Dreiser’s personal library at Penn, heavily marked up.
24. Anna Tatum to TD, [winter 1934] (Penn); and Gerhard Friedrich, “A Ma-
jor Influence on Theodore Dreiser’s The Bulwark, ” American Literature 29 (May
1957): 180–93.
25. Anna Tatum to TD, October 23, 1932 (Penn).
26. The Bulwark (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946), 316–17, 337.
27. R. N. Mookerjee, “Dreiser’s Use of Hindu Thought in The Stoic, ” Amer-
ican Literature 43 (May 1971): 273–78.
28. L, 3: 997–98, 1009–10. It has also been asserted that Hazel Mack God-
n o t e s t o p a g e s 3 8 8 – 3 9 5
4 5 9
win may have written “Black Sheep No. Three: Bill,” a pointless sketch about a
man whose practical joking drives away his friends and one of two wives. See
Richard Lingeman, Theodore Dreiser (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990), 2:
442; Joseph Gri‹n, “Dreiser’s Later Sketches,” DN 16 (Fall 1985): 8–9; and Don-
ald Pizer, Richard W. Dowell, and Frederic E. Rusch, eds., Theodore Dreiser: A
Primary Bibliography and Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991), 54.
29. American Academy of Arts and Letters declaration as quoted in L, 3: 1001;
and DML, 2: 708. Ironically, Mencken inadvertently accepted a gold medal from
the same organization six years later; see Terry Teachout, The Skeptic: A Life of
H. L. Mencken (New York: Harper-Collins, 2002), 321–22.
30. Richard Duªy, “Prospectus: Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser,” June
1, 1944 (Texas); Tjader [Harris], Dreiser: A New Dimension, 126–27; and her Love
That Will Not Let Me Go: My Time with Theodore Dreiser, ed. Lawrence E. Huss-
man (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), xi. See also “My Creator” (dated November
18, 1943), in TDS, 324–29.
31. H. L. Mencken, “Theodore Dreiser,” in A Book of Prefaces (New York:
Knopf, 1917), 67–148; TD to Floyd Dell, June 6, 1928 (Newberry Library); and
Tjader [Harris], Dreiser: A New Dimension, 139–40.
32. Tjader [Harris], Dreiser: A New Dimension, 135–36.
33. TD to Marguerite Tjader [Harris], June 12, 1944 (Texas); and ML, 300.
34. ML, 302–5; and DML, 2: 726.
35. “Theodore Dreiser Joins Communist Party,” Daily Worker, July 30, 1945.
For the most recent reexamination of the circumstances surrounding Dreiser’s
decision to join the party on the brink of the Cold War, see Donald Pizer, “‘The
Logic of My Life and Work’: Another Look at Dreiser’s July 20, 1945, Letter to
William Z. Foster,” DS 30 (Fall 1999): 24–34. Dreiser told Robert H. Elias on
September 10, 1945, that he would speak his mind as in the past: “If the Party
doesn’t like it, it can throw me out” (quoted in John J. McAleer, “Dreiser’s ‘Notes
on Life,’” Library Chronicle 38 [Winter 1972]: 88, n. 8).
36. Richard W. Dowell, “Harold Dies and the Dreiser Trust,” DS 19 (Spring
1988): 26–31.
37. L, 3: 1035.
38. ML, 312–16; and Vera Dreiser, My Uncle Theodore (New York: Nash Pub-
lishing Co., 1976), 12. See also Helen Dreiser to William C. Lengel, February
22, 1946 (Penn).
39. ML, 321; Esther McCoy, “The Death of Dreiser,” Grand Street 7 ( Win-
ter 1988): 73–85; and AT, 2: 367.
40. The stroke from which Helen died in 1955 occurred not long after the
publication of My Life with Dreiser. Earlier, during the book’s composition, her
editor paid her a visit in Oregon, where she was then living with her sister, Myr-
tle. He was shocked to find Helen, whom he had remembered as “a charming,
totally feminine woman, radiating sexuality,” now “lying in a giant-sized crib . . .
n o t e s t o p a g e s 3 9 5 – 4 0 0
4 6 0
unable to speak except to utter a peculiar cackle, or laugh, from the side of her
mouth. . . . She had put on a great amount of weight and looked like a giant
kewpie doll in her crib” ( William Targ, Indecent Pleasures: The Life and Colorful
Times of William Targ [New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1975], 72–74).
41. Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1964), 435; New York Herald Tribune, December 29, 1945; and New York Times,
December 29, 1945.
n o t e s t o p a g e 4 0 1
4 6 1
i n d e x
Aaberg, Christian, 28
Aragon, Louis, 398
“About the Hotels,” 60
Arbuckle, Fatty, 290
Academy, The, 162
Arena, The, 160
Adams, Franklin P., 328, 389
Armour, Philip Danforth, 25, 121–22, 172;
Ade, George, 48, 123, 153, 161, 186, 262;
as “Timothy Arneel” in The Titan,
“Fable of Two Mandolin Players,”
221, 236
161, 186, 329
Association of Southern Women for the
Ainslee’s Magazine, 116, 122–25, 127, 131, 133,
Prevention of Lynching, 360
136, 138, 160, 164, 169, 180–81, 254
Astor, John Jacob, 217
Albany Journal, 161
Athenaeum, The, 163
Alden, Henry M., 133; on Sister Carrie,
Atlantic Monthly, 157, 160
152–53, 251
Atwater, Amzi, 33
American Mercury, 319, 375
Authors’ League of America, 261
American Spectator, The, 365–67, 369,
371, 373, 376
Babbitt, Irving, 317
Amick, Robert, 197
Bacon, Delia, 277
Anderson, Margaret, 232; Little Review, The,
Bahr, Herman, 273
232
Baker, May Calvert, 18, 20, 23, 275, 284–85
Anderson, Nellie, 44, 52
Baltimore Evening Sun, 207, 265
Anderson, Sherwood, 232, 258, 262, 306,
Balzac, Honoré de, 80–81, 88–89, 108, 153,
355, 364–65, 376, 387; Horses and
161, 212, 227; Cousin Bette, 81; Cousin
Men, 232; “Tandy,” 328–29; Windy
Pons, 81; The Great Man from the
McPherson’s Son, 232; Winesburg, Ohio,
Provinces, 80–81, 89; Pere Goriot, 81;
232, 274, 328–29
The Wild Ass’s Skin, 80, 105
Arabian Nights, The, 310, 333; “History
Bann, James, 283
of Aladdin, The,” 310
Barnes, Earl, 31
4 6 3
Barrymore, John, 384
Bulger, Thomas, 9,
Beach, Rex, 252, 262; Heart of the Sunset,
Burke, Mike, 177–78, 282
252
Burroughs, John, 124, 144
Bellette, Sue, 8–9, 250
Butler, Edward, 225
Benedict, Harriet, 299–300
Bennett, Arnold, 229, 262; Your United
Cabell, James Branch, 365, 368
States, 229
Cahan, Abraham, 111, 114, 116; Yeki: A
Berkman, Alexander, 200
Tale of the New York Ghetto, 111
Bernays, Edward, 276
Cain, Murrel, 250–51, 284
Beyer, Thomas P., 297
Caldwell, Erskine, 372, 383; Tobacco Road,
Biedenkapp, F. G., 337
372
Bierce, Ambrose, 293
Calvert, May. See Baker, May Calvert
Bissell, Harriet, 374, 377–79, 392
Campbell, Douglas Houghton, 31
Bloom, Estelle. See Kubitz, Estelle
Campbell, Louise, 267–69, 278, 287, 307,
Bloom, Marion, 265–67, 285; one of
316, 319, 322, 338, 381, 388; author
the “Redmond Sisters” in A Gallery,
of “Black Sheep No. Four: Ethelda,”
265–66, 313, 348
394; editing of American Tragedy,
Blum, Léon, 377
An, 308; editing of The Bulwark, 397;
Bohemian Magazine, 193, 197
editing of Dreiser Looks at Russia, 345–
Boni, Charles, 276
47; editing of Gallery of Women, A,
Bookman, 145, 349
345; editing revision of The Financier,
Booth, Franklin, 197, 245–47, 249–51, 268
334
Boston Globe, 196
Carlyle, Thomas, 109
Bourne, Randolph, 258, 273
Carnegie, Andrew, 77–78, 80, 83, 111–12,
Boyd, Ernest, 338, 356, 358, 365, 367
195
Boyd, Madeleine, 356
Carrie, 383–84