Dreiser

"The new Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia is a handsome piece of work which shows thorough and responsible attention to its subject and careful quality control. Keith Newlin, the coeditor of Dreiser Studies, has assembled a roster of contributors that includes many of the leading Dreiser scholars of this generation….The entries are notably well-written, and Newlin has delimited his topic intelligently, focusing not only on Dreiser's texts, but also on the biographical and contextual matter of Dreiser's richly varied public and personal life….[a] neatly cross-referenced compendium of information about the life and works of one of our most important authors….This volume will serve its readers very well."-American Literary Realism
Nearly 70 scholars, from well established veterans to newcomers, contribute articles relating American writer Dreiser (1871-1945). They provide general readers and specialists in Dreiser, American literature, or his period with information on people he knew, his massive body of work, themes, places he lived, editors and publishers, inspirations for.