Teaching Topics in Social Studies
Theodore Dreiser advocated for SOCIAL REFORM. Although he was once skeptical of COMMUNISM, the GREAT DEPRESSION

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convinced him of the need for ECONOMIC reform. He was associated with the SOCIALIST PARTY and even traveled to Spain during the SPANISH CIVIL WAR in support of the socialist government. He was considered a security risk by the FBI during the reign of J. EDGAR HOOVER. He was active in the SACCO AND VANZETTI CASE, and the deportation of EMMA GOLDMAN.
 
Teaching Topics in Language Arts
Theodore Dreiser was among the first American

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authors to write in a NATURALIST style, which rejected VICTORIAN morality for descriptive REALISM. His works were often CENSORED. His novel Sister Carrie was not PROMOTED by his PUBLISHERS and as a result, initially sold poorly.

Facts About Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser grew up in poverty after his father's woolen mill was destroyed by fire A former teacher sent him to the University of Indiana for a year where he became interested in writing; he left to become a reporter for the Chicago Globe Though written in 1900, Sister Carrie, was suppressed by publisher Frank Doubleday due to its amoral content. It was reissued in 1907 and eventually published in its original form in 1981 The title character was loosely based on Dreiser's sister, Emma Dreiser finally achieved critical and popular success twenty-five years later with An American Tragedy