in The Titan, 236
in A Gallery, 165–67, 349
Lengel, William C., 196, 233, 291, 236,
Manchester Guardian, 162
366, 383, 387–88
Marcer, Joseph F., 225
Leopold, Nathan, 304
Marden, Orison Swett, 120
Levin, Meyer, 304; Compulsion, 304
Maritzer, Louis, 313–14
Lévitt, Albert H., 315
Maritzer, Marion. See Bloom, Marion
Levitt, William; see Yakey, Bill
Markham, Edward, 205
Lewis, Sinclair, 200, 240, 262, 296, 346,
Markham, Kirah. See Hyman, Elaine
365, 395; Babbitt, 339; Elmer Gantry,
Marlowe, Christopher, 27
335; Main Street, 339, 376; Nobel
Martin, Quinn, 321
Prize for Literature, 356; slapping by
Masses, 240, 276
Dreiser, 358–59; Trail of the Hawk,
Masters, Edgar Lee, 134, 262, 272, 296,
The, 254
376, 383, 396; comment about The
Life Magazine, 252
Bulwark, 391; Dreiser’s reception for,
Light, Evelyn, 367–68
245; reaction to The Financier, 232;
Lincoln, Abraham, 84
reaction to Jennie Gerhardt, 232;
Lincoln, Robert, 122
reaction to Sister Carrie, 232; Spoon
Lindbergh, Charles, 335, 385
River Anthology, 232, 327; “Theodore
Lingeman, Richard, xiii, 163, 263
the Poet,” 245, 327
Literary Digest, 160
Matthews, Brander, 262
Liveright, Horace, 275–77, 289, 294, 307,
Matthiessen, F. O., 151, 178; American
316, 334, 365, 373; quarrel with Dreiser,
Renaissance, The, 257
320–22
Mature, Victor, 383
Llona, Victor, 339
Maupassant, Guy de, 186–87
Loeb, Jacques, 240, 264, 333; Mechanistic
Maxwell, John Milo, 48, 53, 277, 285
Conception of Life, The, 283
Mayer, Louis B., 288
Loeb, Richard, 304
McCord, Peter, 57, 69, 85, 100, 188, 190–
London Daily Mail, 162
92, 281
London, Jack, 188, 262
McCoy, Esther. See Tobey, Esther McCoy
Londres, Albert, 341; Road to Buenos Ayres,
McClure, Sam, 154
The, 341
McClure, S. S., 395
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 17,
McClure’s Magazine, 120, 179, 219
257
McCullagh, Joseph B., 52, 54–56, 59–60,
Los Angeles Times, 185, 207, 384
62–64
Louisville Times, 161
McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. D. H., 293
Lowell, Amy, 262
McEnnis, John T., 52, 54, 59–60
Lowell, James Russell, 257
McKee, Thomas, 183–84
Lubbock, Sir John, 133; Ants, Bees and
McKinley, William, 199–200
Wasps, 133
McLean, Charles Agnew, 181, 185
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Melville, Herman, xii, 154, 257; Billy Budd,
Morgan, J. P., 194–95
382; Moby-Dick, 100
Morse, Theodore F., 101; “The Arrival
Mencken, Anna, 316
of the Bride,” 101
Mencken, Henry Louis, xii, 81, 131, 133,
Moses, Montrose J., 218
143–44, 153–54, 171, 188, 190–91,
Muldoon, William, 173–77, 282, 303, 308
193–94, 199, 205, 209–10, 220, 226,
Munsey’s Magazine, 116, 120, 130, 187
228, 236–37, 253–54, 256, 259, 266,
Mussolini, Benito, 372
284–85, 292–93, 295–96, 311, 313–
My Gal Sal (movie), 383
14, 326, 328, 333–34, 365, 371, 374–
Myers, Gustavus, 223; History of Great
75, 388, 391, 395, 401; Book of Prefaces,
Fortunes, 223
A, 269, 273–75; comment on “Free,”
280; “Decay of Churches, The,” 197;
Nathan, George Jean, 189, 194, 365–67, 371
disapproval of Dreiser’s socialist
Nation, 160, 370
friends, 48, 239–40, 261, 269–70,
National Association for the Advancement
289, 385; ghost writing infant care
of Colored People, 359
articles for The Delineator, 188–89;
National Committee for the Defense of
“In Defense of Profanity,” 193;
Political Prisoners, 359–60
opinion of A Gallery of Women, 348–
National Mine Workers, 361
49; petition in defense of The “Genius,”
Naylor, Joseph P., 31
260–62; quarrel with Dreiser in 1925,
Nearing, Scott, 340–41
316, 318; review of An American
Nelson, John, 172
Tragedy, 318–19; review of The
New England Society for the Suppression
Financier, 227; review of The Titan,
of Vice, 140
235; trip to Europe in 1916, 271;
New, Jr., Harry, 303
reviews of Jennie Gerhardt, 206–7
New Idea for Women, 187, 193–94
Metropolitan Magazine, 97–98, 113, 116,
New Masses, 371
119–20, 331
New Orleans Picayune, 185
Mill, John Stuart Mill, 170
New Republic, 253, 317
Miller, Arthur, 146
New York American, 205
Miller, Henry, 317
New York Aurora, 104
Millier, Arthur, 384
New York Call, 179, 272
Mills, Darius O., 173
New York Clipper, 97
Mills, R. P., 175–77
New York Commercial Advertiser, 161, 163,
Mitchell, Tobias, 56, 62–63
368
Moers, Ellen, 110
New York Daily News, 179–80
Molineaux, Roland, 303–4
New York Daily Tribune, 52, 120, 206
Monahan, Margaret. See Székely, Margaret
New York Evening Globe, 252
Monahan, Roy Phelps, 351
New York Evening Journal, 91
Montaigne, Michel de, 376
New York Evening Post, 218, 339, 346
Moody, Dwight L., 26
New York Evening Sun, 90, 280; coverage
Mooney, James D., 358; Onward Industry!
of the Brown-Gillette murder trial,
358
306
Mooney, Thomas J., 355
New York Herald, 159
Moore, George, 206, 230; Esther Waters,
New York Herald Tribune, 316, 385, 400
206
New York Post, 169
Moore, Mary Adelaide, 225
New York Society for the Prevention of
More, Paul Elmer, 317
Vice, 256, 259
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New York Times, 183, 187, 206, 227, 230,
Peattie, Elia W., 252, 257
251, 254, 386, 400–401
Pell, Arthur, 337
New York Times Saturday Review of Books,
Penn, William, 247
159
Pep, 272
New York World, 90–92, 95–96, 100, 102,
Pergaine, Marie, 361–62
105, 149, 292, 318, 321, 328, 344, 349,
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (the second), 109;
366; assistance for Dreiser to visit
A Singular Life, 109
Sing Sing, 309; coverage of the Brown-
Philadelphia Public Ledger, 224, 339
Gillette murder case, 297, 301; 303,
Phillips, David Graham, 222; Master
306, 311
Rogue, The, 222
Nichols, Dudley, 309
Phillips, John, 185
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 48, 189, 272
Pickford, Mary, 288
Norris, Frank, 32, 125–26, 155–56, 158,
Pictorial Review, 332
160, 162, 208, 325; McTeague, 51, 92,
Pineville Sun, 361
111, 154–55, 160–61, 188, 206, 222;
Pittsburgh Dispatch, 76, 79–83, 85, 89, 110
Octopus, The, 156, 222; Pit, The, 222;
Pittsburgh Times, 78
Vandover and the Brute, 111
Pizer, Donald, 89, 103
North American Review, 160, 205, 273
Place in the Sun, A, 383–84
Norworth, Jack, 183; “Shine On, Harvest
Poe, Edgar Allan, 17–18, 34, 60, 63, 257,
Moon,” 183
292, 295; “Cask of Amontillado,
The,” 263; “Imp of the Perverse,
O’Casey, Sean, 398
The,” 311; influence on An American
O’Connor, David Ben. See Willy, Day
Tragedy, 311; “William Wilson,”
Allen
366
Olivier, Lawrence, 383
Pope Pius X, 213
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 67
Port Huron Times, 389
O’Neill, Eugene, 233, 241, 365, 371, 376;
Potter, Charlie, 87, 281
Hairy Ape, The, 276; Strange Inter-
Potter, Eihu H., 282
lude, 350
Pound, Ezra, 262, 276
Oppenheim, James, 273
Powys, John Cowper, 181, 231, 233–34, 240,
Orpet, William, 303
294, 371, 376, 378; comparing Dreiser
Outlook Magazine, 160
with Whitman, 256–57, 282
Powys, Llewellyn, 240, 294
Page, Walter Hines, 154–56, 158, 252
Powys, Marian, 376
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 229; Mark Twain’s
Powys, Theodore, 378
Autobiography, 374
Pulitzer, Joseph, 55, 90–91, 123
Pantano, Anthony, 309–11
Puritan Magazine, 120
Parisienne, 260
Pullman, George Mortimer, 25
Parks, Esther Schänäb, 285
Pyne, Mary, 349, 368; model for “Esther
Pass, Joseph, 360
Norn” in A Gallery, 349, 368
Pater, Walter, 212
Patges, George Christian, 285
Rascoe, Burton, 359
Patges, Hazel, 285
Rector, Emma, 71
Patges, Myrtle, 285, 398; model for “Reina”
Reed, John, 238, 240, 262; Patterson Strike
in A Gallery, 294, 349
Pageant, The, 238; Ten Days That
Patrick, Josephine, 293
Shook the World, 276
Pearson’s Magazine, 120, 134
Reed, Thomas B., 79–80
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Reedy, William Marion, 134, 282; Mirror,
Rutter, Carrie. See Tuttle, “Cad”
134, 159, 227
Rutter, Maude, 19
Remarque, Erich Maria, 385; All Quiet
Ryan, Thomas F., 194
on the Western Front, 385
Review of Reviews, 160
San Francisco Bulletin, 293
Rice, Anne Estelle, 350; model for “Ellen
San Francisco Chronicle, 227, 355
Adams Wrynn” in A Gallery, 350
Sanger, Margaret, 240, 242, 299
Richards, Grant (“Barfleur”), 145, 207–9,
Saturday Evening Post, 278, 332
212–14, 217, 229–31
Schlatter, Frank, 103
Richardson, Frank, 285–86
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 272
Richardson, Helen Patges, 71, 285–91,
Schuler, Eric, 261–62
293–95, 305, 308–9; 312, 315–16, 319–
Scott, Howard, 385
20, 324, 327–29, 333, 337–38, 340, 344–
Scott, Sir Walter, 20; Marmion, 50
45, 362, 364–65, 373, 377, 381, 383,
Sears, Richard Warren, 25
388, 390, 398–400; influence on The
Seattle Post Intelligencer, 161–62
Bulwark, 394; marriage to Dreiser,
Seery, Brigitte, 165–66
396–97; role in The Four Horsemen of
Seven Arts, The, 240, 271, 273, 276
the Apocalypse, 289; “To a Poet,” 400
Shadowland, 296
Richeson, Clarence, 303
Shakespeare, William, 277; Macbeth, 227;
Rider, Fremont, 205
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 272
Ridgeway, Erman, 198
Shapiro, Carl, 220
Riggio, Thomas P., 201
Shaw, George Bernard, 188, 328, 370, 389–90
Riis, Jacob, 114, 116; How the Other Half
Shay, Frank, 276
Lives, 114, 368
Sherman, Stuart P., 234, 257–59, 272;
Riley, James Whitcomb, 249
“Barbaric Naturalism of Mr. Dreiser,
Rivera, Diego, 338
The,” 257–58, 316; “Naturalism of
Robertson, John W., 292
Mr. Dreiser, The,” 257–58, 316; review
Robeson, Paul, 192, 395
of An American Tragedy, 316–17
Robin, Joseph G., 282–83, 309, 335
Shinn, Everett, 254
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 262, 380
Sidney, Sylvia, 371
Robinson Crusoe, 310
Sinclair, Upton, 184, 366; candidate
Rockefeller, Sr., John D., 29, 75
for governor of California, 372; I,
Roebling, Washington, 217
Governor of California, and How