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* About the Author Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana,1874.He was died in 1945,aged 74. His father John Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Eifel region, and the author‘s mother Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio; she was disowned（否认） for marrying John and converting to Roman Catholicism. Theodore was the twelfth of thirteen children (the ninth of the ten surviving) Dreiser was raised a strict Catholic. American novelist and journalist. Marriage(love affairs) Sara White: married her on December 28,1898;ultimately separated in 1909;but never formally divorced. Thelma Cudlipp: the separation was partly as a result of his infatuation(愚蠢) with her,the teenage daughter of a work colleague. Kyra Markham: lived with her,who was an actress and painter,much younger than him,in the 1930s. Helen Richardson: met his cousin H.R.in 1919,with whom he began an affair with sado-masochistic（性虐） elements;eventually married on June 13,1944 House of Four Pillars（柱子） Major Works Fiction Sister Carrie ,1900 《嘉丽妹妹》 Jennie Gerhardt , 1911 《珍妮姑娘》 Trilogy of Desire (欲望三部曲): The Financier ,1912 《金融家》 The Titan, 1914 《巨人》 The Stoic , 1947《斯多噶》 Drama Plays of the Natural and Supernatural,1916 The Hand of the Potter,1918 Nonfiction A Traveler at Forty,1913 A Book about Myself,1922 Tragic America(1931) Sister Carrie first edition 1900.The publishers kept the cover intentionally bland in order not to pro mote what was seen as a controversial work. when it appeared, and sold poorly, even less than 500 copies. fortunately, it later acquired a considerable reputation. It was made into a 1952 film by William Wyler, which starred Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones. Background The novel reflected the American experience guided by the developing capitalist economy. In the process of this development, thousands of rural Americans rushed to the cities to find jobs and to build themselves new lives and ident