Brace, Annie. See Winter, Anna
Cary, Lucian, 231
Brandes, Georg, 328
Cather, Willa, 262, 395
Branner, John Caspar, 31
Cecil, Robert, 277
Brennan, Austin, 27, 46, 112, 146, 172, 174,
Century Magazine, 61, 100, 116, 133–34,
308, 396
209, 273, 318
Brett, George A., 162, 168, 201
Chaplin, Charlie, 288, 291–92, 349, 400
Bridges, Calvin, 345, 395
Charlotte Observer, 227
Brill, A. A., 307
Chase, Stuart, 356
Brisbane, Arthur, 91, 358
Chicago Daily Globe, 48–51, 53, 57, 60, 271
Broadway Magazine, 183–88
Chicago Daily News, 48–49
Brooklyn Eagle, 145, 327
Chicago Evening Post, 231, 233–34
Broun, Heywood, 318, 358
Chicago Herald, 47, 72
Brown, Grace, 297–306, 311, 314; Grace
Chicago Times Herald, 159, 161
Brown’s Love Letters, 306
Chicago Tribune, 252
Browne, Maurice, 233–34
Chopin, Kate, 152, 187; Awakening, The,
Bryan, William Jennings, 188
152, 187
Bryant, William Cullen, 16
Christian Age, 40
Buck, Pearl S., 376, 389
Churchill, Winston, 345, 386
Buckner, John, 136
Cincinnati Enquirer, 334
Building Management, 232
Clark, Clara. See Jaeger, Clara Clark
Bulger, Jimmy, 9, 312, 314, 329
Clark, Orrin Benner, 31–33
i n d e x
4 6 4
Clemens, Samuel L., 32, 162, 187, 229,
Dale, Violet, 100
333, 376; Adventures of Huckleberry
Daly, Augustin, 62, 86–87; Under the
Finn, 40, 206; Connecticut Yankee,
Gaslight, 62, 87, 148, 289
A, 96; Gilded Age, The, 40; Innocents
Damrosch, Walter, 395
Abroad, The, 60, 210; Mysterious
Dana, Charles A., 52, 90
Stranger, The, 374; Personal Reflections
Danger Signal, The, 69
of Joan of Arc, 108; What Is Man? 374
Daniels, Bebe, 293
Cleveland, Grover, 49
Daniels, George Henry, 172
Cleveland Leader, 75
Darrow, Clarence, 232, 236, 304, 318, 335,
Clift, Montgomery, 383
359
Coates, Joseph H., 188, 224
Darwin, Charles, 88, 107, 131, 164, 258,
Cohen, Lester, 361–62
376; On the Origin of Species, 51,
Columbus, Christopher, 67
88–89
Comstock, Anthony, 140, 259, 366
Davis, Ed, 27
Conklin, Andrew, 39–41, 43, 45, 290
Davis, Hubert, 373
Conklin, Asa. See Conklin, Andrew
Davis, Magdalene, 308
Conway, Moncure, 138
Davis, Richard Harding, 95
Copenhaver, Eleanor, 364
Davis, Robert H., 179
Cooke, Jay, 225
Dawson, N. P., 252
Cooper, Frederick Taber, 186
Defoe, Daniel, 310; Robinson Crusoe, 310
Cooper, James Fenimore, 17
Dell, Floyd, 215, 233–34, 236, 240, 269,
Cosgrave, John O’Hara, 187
276, 338; model for “Gardner
Cosmopolitan Magazine. See Hearst’s
Knowles” in The Titan, 234
International-Cosmopolitan
DeLong, Edith. See Jarmuth, Edith
Coxey, Jacob S., 75
DeLong
Coxey’s Army, 75, 79–80
Delineator, The, 187–88, 191, 193–96, 199,
Crane, Stephen, 32, 83, 91–92, 125–26, 153,
203, 232, 237, 252, 277, 282, 380
162, 207, 325, 332; “Experiment in
DeMille, Cecil B., 288
Misery, An” 81, 114; Maggie, A Girl
Demorest’s Magazine, 120, 124–25, 128, 149
of the Streets, 81, 83, 92, 116, 131;
Depew, Chauncey M., 171–72, 176
“Men in the Storm, The,” 108, 148;
Designer, The, 187, 193–94
“Mystery of Heroism, A,” 108; Red
Deshon, Florence, 291; model for “Ernes-
Badge of Courage, The, 108, 110, 133,
tine” in A Gallery, 291, 349
204
Detroit Free Press, 206
Critic, The, 160
Dewey, Admiral George, 195
Cudlipp, Annie, 197–98, 201
Dewey, John, 337, 376
Cudlipp, Jerome, 197–98
Dickens, Charles, 20, 228
Cudlipp, Olaff, 197–98
Dickinson, Emily, 33
Cudlipp, Thelma, 197–99, 255, 351; model
Dies, Harold, 398–99
for “Aileen Butler” in The Financier,
Dies, Martin, 398
226; model for “Emanuela” in A
Dinamov, Serge, 342
Gallery, 349
Dixon, Thomas, 73; The Clansman, 73
cummings, e. e., 276; Enormous Room,
Dodge, Ben, 185
The, 276
Dooney, Jimmy. See Bulger, Jimmie
Current Literature, 160
Doran, George H., 237
Custer, Mrs. General, 119
Dos Passos, John, 355, 359; Harlan Miners
Czolgosz, Leon, 200
Speak, 361; U.S.A., 361
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 315, 343
Dreiser, Mary Theresa, 2, 14, 22, 27, 41–43,
Doty, Douglas Z., 229–30
46, 112, 134; accidental death, 132, 286
Doubleday, Frank, 154–58, 161, 208
Dreiser, Sarah Schänäb (mother), 1–6, 8–
Doubleday, Neltje, 140, 185, 208
16, 20–23, 27, 29–30, 38, 45–46, 65,
Douglas, George, 293, 373–74
211, 242, 285; death, 41–43, 231, 331
Dreiser, Alphonse Joachim (“Al”), 2, 8, 12,
Dreiser, Sara Osborne White (first wife,
27, 41–43, 46, 68, 112, 174, 312
“Jug”), 18, 66, 68–69, 71, 84, 85, 96,
Dreiser, Cacilia (“Sylvia”), 2, 7–8, 11, 21–
99–100, 106–7, 109, 112–13, 116–17,
22, 112, 201, 211, 312; model for
122–25, 138, 158, 170, 176, 179, 181,
“Jennie,” 221
184, 192, 197, 218, 239–40, 277, 279,
Dreiser, Carl (Sylvia’s son), 22, 53, 201;
282, 348; death, 390; demands for
suicide, 183
financial support, 322–24; editing
Dreiser, Clara Clothilde (“Claire” or
of Jennie Gerhardt, 205, 390; editing
“Tillie”), 2, 6, 8, 10–12, 14, 41, 43,
of Sister Carrie, 150, 152, 205, 390;
45–46, 47, 52, 112, 263
marriage to Dreiser, 125, 399; model
Dreiser, Eduard Minerod (“Ed”), 2, 4–6,
for “Angela Blue” in The “Genius,”
8, 10, 14–15, 17, 20, 41–42, 47, 68,
193, 255, 307; model for “Lillian
112, 174, 182–83, 221, 286, 390
Semple” in The Financier, 225–26;
Dreiser, Emma Wilhelmina, 2, 8, 12, 14,
separation from Dreiser, 198–99, 277,
112, 146, 172, 182, 322; model for
322–24
“Carrie,” 20–22, 145, 149, 312
Dreiser, Theodore: and the American
Dreiser, Gertrude (Emma’s daughter), 312
Academy of Arts and Letters, 395;
Dreiser, Helen (second wife). See Richard-
anti-Semitism, 44, 350, 367–71, 385,
son, Helen Patges
387–88; audience with the Pope Pius
Dreiser, John Paul (father), 1, 4–8, 11, 15–
X, 213; candidate for Nobel Prize
16, 21–22, 27, 30, 41–43, 45–46, 68,
in Literature, 356–57; and Chicago
112, 134, 183, 214, 244; death, 146;
World’s Fair, 66–68, 101–2; claim
model in The Bulwark, 201, 391;
that he wrote lyrics to “On the Banks
model in “The Father,” 231; model
of the Wabash,”96, 116–18; and the
in The Hand of the Potter, 263; model
Communist Party, 337, 397–98; death
in “Old Ragpicker, 244
and funeral, 400–401; depression,
Dreiser, Jr., John Paul (brother). See
163–64, 168–77; as editor of Bo-
Dresser, Paul
hemian Magazine, 193, 197; as editor
Dreiser, Mai Skelly (Ed Dreiser’s wife),
of The Delineator, 187–88, 191, 193–
183, 263–64
99; as editor of Ev’ry Month, 99–118,
Dreiser, Markus Romanus (“Rome”), 2, 8,
129, 173; eyesight, 3; FBI Record, 363,
12, 14, 27–28, 41, 42–43, 45, 98, 112,
379; hit by car, 284; interviews with
174, 183, 202, 263, 301, 312, 314, 322,
William Dean Howells, 125–28, 130;
336, 384; model for “Black Sheep
jealousy of brother Paul Dresser’s
No. One: Johnny,” 394; model for
success, 110–11; as “Lane Cross”
unidentified prisoner in The Fi-
in The Titan, 234; marriages, 125,
nancier, 226; premature report of
396–97, 399; and the National Insti-
death, 250
tute of Arts and Letters, 374; plagia-
Dreiser, Mary Frances (“Mame”), 2–3, 7–
rism, 104–6, 126–27, 161, 186, 328–
8, 12, 14, 21, 27, 41–42, 45–46, 85, 89–
29, 346–47, 356, 358, 389; Pulitzer
94, 97, 112, 172–74, 182, 308, 312, 322,
Prize, 376; quarrel with Arthur Henry,
336, 396; model for Jennie, 201, 221
180; quarrel with H. L. Mencken in
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4 6 6
1925, 316; road trip to Indiana, 246–
Duffy, J. W., the Rev., 125
51; sexual sterility, 193; slapping of
Duffy, Richard, 122, 124, 160, 169–70,
Sinclair Lewis, 358–59; student at In-
179–80, 395–96
diana University, 30–39, 250; suicidal,
Duhring, Louis A., 170
171, 199; superstitious nature, 2, 60,
Dunne, Finley Peter, 48–49
227; throwing coffee in Horace Live-
right’s face, 320–22; and the Titanic,
Eastman, Yvette Székely, 351–52
214–17, 234; Toronto lecture invita-
Eastman, Max, 240, 262, 276, 291, 349,
tion, 388–89; as a transcendentalist,
352, 375; Since Lenin Died, 337
382–83; vernacular style, 317; view
Eastern District Penitentiary of Pennsylva-
of Sacco and Vanzetti, 343, 363; visit
nia, 225, 228
to father’s birthplace in Germany,
Edison, Thomas, 115, 121, 288
213–14, 231. See also section devoted
Edmonston, Arch T., 59–61
to Dreiser’s works, at end of index
Eisenstein, Sergei, 338, 357, 371; Battleship
Dreiser, Vera, 286, 396
Potemkin, 342
Dresser, Louise. See Kerlin, Louise
Elder, Donald, 391, 397
Dresser, Paul (brother), 2, 4, 7–9, 12, 27,
Elder, Paul, 293
29, 45–46, 49, 61–62, 68, 70, 84–89,
Elias, Robert H., xiii, 97, 167, 282, 347,
91, 97–99, 107, 110, 112–14, 116–19,
375, 390, 396
124, 137, 147, 172–75, 177, 179, 191,
Eliot, George, 235
312–13, 327, 383–84; assistance to
Eliot, T. S., 276; Waste Land, The, 276
Dreiser during 1903 crisis, 173–75;
Ellsworth, William E., 229
bankruptcy, 182; “Blue and the Gray,
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 10, 16–17, 102–4,
The,” 183; death, 182–83, 223; “I
113, 129, 154, 257, 272, 359, 373, 376,
Believe It For My Mother Told Me
392; “Experience,” 104, 325, 383
So,” 41, 85; “I Can’t Believe Her
Era, 170, 188
Faithless,” 98; “I’se Your Nigger If
Esherick, Wharton, 264, 316, 358–59
You Wants Me, Liza Jane,” 135; “I Was
Esquire, 366, 372, 395
Looking for My Boy, She Said,” 101;
Euripides, 233; Trojan Women, The, 233–34
“Judgment Is at Hand, The,” 182;
Evans, Herndon, 361–62
“Just Tell Them That You Saw Me,”
Everybody’s Magazine, 224
98, 393; “Letter That Never Came,