Donald Friede, ‘The Mechanical Angel’
Posted here are excerpts about Dreiser from:
Donald Friede, The Mechanical Angel (New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1948)
Friede recalls his various experiences as Dreiser’s publisher, the stage production of An American Tragedy, and the trial in Boston in 1929 to suppress An American Tragedy.
Mentioned in the book are T. R. Smith (pg. 22) and George Antheil (pp. 54-55). Smith was editor-in-chief at Boni & Liveright. He was heavily involved in the editing and cutting of An American Tragedy. Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, and author.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
November 2021
Roger W. Smith's Theodore Dreiser site 