Rollins, Alice W., 119
I Ended Poverty, 372; I, Candidate
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 355, 363, 369,
for Governor: And How I Got Licked,
378–80, 385, 392
372; Jungle, The, 184, 222, 372
Roosevelt, Theodore, 194–95, 380
Skelly, Mai. See Dreiser, Mai Skelly
Rosenthal, Elias, 199
Skelly, Margaret, 183
Rosenthal, Emma, 199
Sloan, John, 254
Rosenthal, Lillian. See Goodman, Lillian
Smart Set, The, 189, 194, 206–7, 235, 239,
Rosenthal
241, 253, 260, 265, 274, 332
Rossetti, Daniel Gabriel, 123–24; “Stream’s
Smith, Edward H., 292, 349
Secret, The,” 123
Smith, Lorna, 117
Rowe, F. L., 259
Smith’s Magazine, 181, 277
Russell, Charles Edward, 223; Lawless
Smith, Ormond, 181
Wealth, 223
Smith, Thomas R., 308–9, 316, 330, 338, 347
Ruth, Babe, 335
Smollett, Tobias George, 80
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Social War, The, 272
Swanberg, W. A., xii–xiii, 180, 192, 196,
Sonntag, Jr., William Lewis, 168, 254, 281
241
South, Mary, 117
Swanson, Gloria, 288
Spafford, Jessie, 349; model for “Giff ”
Swift, Gustavus Franklin, 25
in A Gallery, 349
Székely, Margaret, 351–52
Spencer, Herbert, 36, 88–89, 91, 100, 109,
Székely, Suzanne, 351
148, 272, 392; First Principles, 88
Székely, Yvette. See Eastman, Yvette Székely
Stalin, Josef, 337, 342, 364
Standard Magazine, 84
Taft, William Howard, 195
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 119–20, 130
Taft, Mrs. William Howard, 188
Steffens, Lincoln, 91, 240, 368; Shame of
Tarbell, Ida, 222, 262; History of the
the Cities, The, 222, 225
Standard Oil Company, 222
Steinbeck, John, 383
Tarkington, Booth, 262, 296
Sterling, George, 293–94, 329
Tarzan of the Apes, 289
Sterne, Laurence, 75, 80; Sentimental
Tatum, Anna P., 219, 237, 392–93; model
Journey through France and Italy, 75
for “Elizabeth” in “This Madness,”
Stieglitz, Alfred, 254; “El in the Storm, The,”
348; model for “Etta” in The Bulwark,
254; “Winter on Fifth Avenue,” 254
393
Stout, Rex, 389
Taylor, Bayard, 120, 138, 184
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 109; Uncle Tom’s
Taylor, Jr., Charles W., 196
Cabin, 63, 109
Taylor, Elizabeth, 383
St. Joseph Press, 228
Taylor, Mariam, 349
St. Louis Democrat, 55, 96
Taylor, Thomas P., 283
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 52, 54–58, 58, 61,
Thackeray, William, 20
63–64, 85, 96, 191, 225, 278, 287, 366,
Thompson, Dorothy, 339–40, 456, 358–
389
59; New Russia, The, 346–47
St. Louis Mirror, 203
Thoreau, Henry David, 326, 376; Maine
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 227
Woods, The, 379; Walden, 379
St. Louis Republic, 54, 60, 62–66, 69, 72–
Tjader, Marguerite. See Harris, Marguerite
73, 136, 287, 366
Tjader
St. Nicholas Magazine, 119
Tobey, Esther McCoy, 308, 338, 397
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 62; Uncle Tom’s
Toledo Blade, 72, 74–75, 78
Cabin, 62
Tolstoy, Leo, 126–27, 129, 343; Anna
Strang, F. A., 175–76
Karenina, 206; What to Do? 126, 129
Strindberg, August, 28, 328
Tom Watson’s Magazine, 180–81
Strong, Josiah, 113; The Twentieth Century,
Tocqueville, Alexis, 228
113
Toronto Evening Telegram, 388
Strong, Dr. Julia, 241
Traubel, Horace, 104, 240, 262
Success Magazine, 80, 83, 119–21, 126–27,
Trego, Myrtle. See Weimar, Myrtle
132, 138, 144, 168, 171–; 72, 221, 235,
Trotsky, Leon, 337, 375
254
Truth Magazine, 116, 120–21
Sullivan, John L., 60, 63, 174
Tuttle, “Cad,” 19
Sullivan, Red. See Bulger, Jimmie
Twain, Mark. See Clemens, Samuel L.
Sullivan, Whitey. See Bulger, Jimmie
Sumner, John, 259–60, 281
United Mine Workers, 360
Sutcliffe, Halliwell, 109; The Eleventh
University of Pennsylvania, 170
Commandment, 109
Untermeyer, Louis, 240
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Valentino, Rudolph, 289
Whitlock, Brand, 48, 72
Vanity Fair, 328
Whitman, Charles S., 198
Van Buren, Martin, 359
Whitman, Thomas Jefferson, 282
Van Doren, Carl, 318
Whitman, Walt, 27, 32, 100, 102, 104, 108–
Van Doren, Mark, xii
9, 140, 154, 162, 169, 187, 236–37, 240,
Van Vechten, Carl, 262
257, 259, 261, 272, 292; “I Sing the
Veblen, Thorstein, 301; Theory of the
Body Electric,” 104–5, 295, 327, 373;
Leisure Class, The, 301
Leaves of Grass, 84, 119, 140, 159, 169,
von Sternberg, Joseph, 357
248, 259–60, 282; “Out of the Cradle
Endlessly Rocking,” 236; Spirit in A
Wadhams, William. See Yakey, Bill
Hoosier Holiday, 248; “To a Common
Walker, Sallie. See Winter, Anna
Prostitute,” 210
Wallace, Jules, 65
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 16–17, 257
Wallace, Lew, 62; Ben Hur, 62
Wilde, Oscar, 63, 212, 279, 378–79
Wandell, H. B., 64–65, 72–73
Wilder, George W., 187, 196
Wanger, Walter, 321
Wilder, Thornton, 242
Ward, Aaron Montgomery, 25
Willard, Frances E., 26
Ward, George W., 301
Williams, Arthur Phelps, 267, 350
Warner, Charles Dudley, 40; Gilded Age,
Williams, Estelle. See Kubitz, Estelle
The, 40
Willy, Day Allen, 37–38, 49, 259
Warren, Robert Penn, 92; Night Rider, 372
Wilson, Edmund, 355
Watkins, Ann, 198; model for “Emanuela”
Wilson, Harry Leon, 205
in A Gallery, 349
Wilson, Walter, 229; Forced Labor in the
Watson’s Magazine. See Tom Watson’s
United States, 229
Magazine
Wilson, Woodrow, 188, 204, 228, 385
Wells, H. G., 262
Winter, Anna, 13–14
West, James E., 195
Wood, Dick, 57, 59, 69, 85, 100, 191, 366
Weimar, Myrtle, 20
Wood, Maude. See Henry, Maude Wood
Western Society for the Prevention of
Woodward, W. E., 286, 345
Vice, 259
Woolf, Virginia, 281
Wharton, Edith, 185, 296, 367; House of
Woolman, John, 392, 400
Mirth, The, 185, 203, 206; Reef, The,
Wright, Jr., Frank Lloyd, 278
229
Wright, Willard Huntington, 193
Whipple, T. K., 317
White, Archibald ( Jug’s father), 84, 168,
Yakey, Bill, 35–36
255, 349; compared to Walt Whit-
Yerkes, Jr., Charles Tyson, 25, 29, 68, 199,
man, 84, 282
208, 218, 221–22, 224–25, 227, 231,
White, Richard ( Jug’s brother), 125, 172,
232, 234, 237, 399
390
Young, Art, 276
White, Rose ( Jug’s sister), 67, 125, 154, 255,
Young, C. C., 355
323; early death from cancer, 390;
model for “Rella” in A Gallery, 349
Zahn, Lois, 52–53, 255, 278–79
White, Sally O. See Dreiser, Sara Osborne
Zola, Émile, 57, 325; Nana, 209
White (“Jug”)
Zukor, Adolph, 288
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d r e i s e r ’ s w o r k s
“Aglaia.” See “This Madness”
“Culhane, The Solid Man,” 282
“Albertine.” See Gallery of Women, A
“Curious Shifts of the Poor,” 125, 128–30,
“Along the Wabash,” 96
149–50, 168, 224
Amateur Laborer, An, 172, 178–79, 238
America Is Worth Saving, 385–87
Dawn, 2, 4, 6, 8–10, 13–15, 18–19, 21, 23,
American Diaries, 170
26, 30, 32–35, 38, 40, 42, 44–46, 53,
“American Idealism and German Frightful-
95, 118, 201–2, 238, 242, 250, 254, 259,
ness,” 273
262–63, 272, 290, 313, 358, 364, 369
American Tragedy, An, xi–xii, 10, 31, 45,
“Day of Special Privileges, The,” 194
57, 59, 134, 147, 178–81, 206, 221, 254,
“De Maupassant, Jr.,” 186, 282
276, 281, 290, 292, 296–324, 327, 329,
“Democracy on the Offensive,” 388
331–32, 334–35, 339, 343, 348, 356, 364,
“Doer of the World, A,” 87, 281
380, 391, 400; argument for abortion,
“Down Hill and Up,” 172
22; “banning” in Boston, 335; original
Dreiser Looks at Russia, 341, 344, 376;
title, 293; film versions, 342, 357–58,
charges of plagiarism, 346–47
371, 383; stage version, 320, 336
“At the Sign of the Lead Pencil,” 194
“Electricity in the Household,” 133
“Elizabeth.” See “This Madness”
“Beautiful, The” (poem), 328
“Ellen Adams Wrynn.” See Gallery, A
“Beauty of the Tree, The,” 184
“Emanuela.” See Gallery, A
“Black Sheep” series for Esquire, 394–95
“Epic Sinclair, The,” 372
“Blue Sphere, The,” 242
“Ernestine.” See Gallery, A
“Bondage” (poem), 125
“Ernita.” See Gallery, A
Book About Myself, A. See Newspaper Days
“Essential Tragedy of Life, The,” 283
“Bridgett Mullanphy.” See Gallery, A
“Esther Norn.” See Gallery, A
“Bubble of Success, The,” 131
Bulwark, The, 219, 232, 243, 247, 287–88,
“Father, The,” 231
290–91, 294, 372, 382, 388, 390–95,
Financier, The (1912 edition), xii, 25, 163,
397
199, 202–3, 208–9, 216, 218, 220–
“Butcher Rogaum’s Door,” 131–32, 134–35,
21, 224–29, 231, 234, 237–38, 241,
159, 331
252, 301–2, 372, 399; revised edition
“Burned to Death,” 58
(1927), 226, 334–45
“Forgotten,” 98, 110–11
“Carrier Pigeons in War Time,” 124
“Free,” 278, 280
“Chains,” 179, 332
Free and Other Stories, 133, 135–36, 138, 177,
Chains and Other Stories, 179, 331–33, 348
238, 277–81, 307, 331, 348
“Cheyenne, Haunt of Misery and Crime,”
“Fruitage” (poem), 184–85
50
“Fulfillment,” 332
Color of a Great City, The, 179–80, 238,
242, 263, 306
Gallery of Women, A, 165, 169, 264, 291,
“Convention,” 309, 332
295, 313, 348, 365, 391; “Albertine,”
“Country Doctor, The,” 282
350; “Bridgett Mullanphy,” 350; “Ellen
“Court of Progress, The,” 272
Adams Wrynn,” 350; “Emanuela,”
“Cradle of Tears, The,” 180
349; “Ernestine,” 291, 349; “Ernita,”
“Cruise of the ‘Idlewild,’ The,” 280
340, 349; “Esther Norn,” 349, 368;
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Gallery of Women, A (continued)
“In the Days of Discovery,” 194
“Giff,” 349; “Ida Hauchawout,” 350–
“Irish Section Foreman Who Taught Me
51; “Lucia,” 350; “Olive Brand,” 292,
How to Live, The,” 178
349; “Regina C _____,” 348–49;
“Is America Worth Saving?” See America
“Reina,” 349; “Rella,” 169, 349; “Rona
Is Worth Saving
Murtha,” 165–67, 349
“Genius,” The, 53, 108, 124, 176, 199, 202–