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Jack Dvorak, ‘May Calvert, Dreiser’s Lifelong Teacher’
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addendum
Reading Dreiser’s Dawn — in this case looking for his version of specific events in his life — I can’t help but think of what it meant to be an immigrant in those times. His parents — his father German, his mother Moravian — were old fashioned and uncomfortable with many aspects of American life and customs.
Their children became thoroughly American. Theodore Dreiser’s boyhood and schooling do not sound that different from that of mine and the kids I knew growing up.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2024
Roger W. Smith's Theodore Dreiser site 