Ainslee Magazine, 25

Alden, Henry Mills, 43

An Amateur Laborer , 5, 29, 31, 76, 152, 208, 210, 213

An American Tragedy , 1–2, 5–6, 8, 16, 20n2, 55

B. W. Dodge and Company, 32

Barnes, A. S., 30

Bowers, Fredson, 11–12

Bulwark, The , 5

capitalism, 49, 71–73, 75, 89, 127

conditions of workers, 75–76

trusts/monopolies, 86–88

censorship, 39–41, 46, 50n6, 178–180, 212

Center for Editions of American Authors (CEAA), 11

Coates, Joseph Horne, 28

Comstock, Anthony, 40–41, 179

Comstock Laws, 40–41

Conrad, Joseph, 34

Craik, Dinah Mulock, 42

Crane, Stephen, 7, 46–47

The Red Badge of Courage , 46–48, 50n11

D. Appleton and Company, 25, 30, 47

Dawn , 18, 58–59, 115, 122–123, 135, 146, 197, 207–208

David Harum. See Westcott, Edward Noyes

Degas, Edgar

Le Viol , 179

Dodge, Ben, 32

Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 23, 50n1

Doubleday Page Company, 13, 22–24, 26, 42, 45

Dreiser, Johann Paul (father), 93

Dreiser, Sara (Jug, wife), 27

Dreiser, Sarah Schanab (mother), 115, 122

Dreiser, Maria Franziska (Mame), 29

Dreiser, Paul (Paul Dresser), 29

Dreiser, Theodore

association with Communist Party, 3

childhood poverty, 57–58

criticism of Catholic Church, 58–59

editorial position at the New York Daily News , 31

editorial position at Butterick , 31, 38

editorial position at Broadway Magazine , 31

love of nature, 207–208

naturalism, 4–5, 156–157

psychological problems while writing Jennie Gerhardt, 26–30

romanticism, 18–19, 157, 197

Duffy, Richard, 25

Duneka, Frederick A., 38, 43, 45, 48–49

Duhring, Louis A., 26–27

Era Magazine, 28

Fry, Roger (curator of paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art), 179