![]() ![]() He soon started work on his second novel, Jennie Gerhardt, and had made considerable progress when he was hit by writer’s block, the result of a nervous breakdown, which essentially lasted for ten years. It was published in 1900 but the publisher did not approve of the subject matter and did not promote it, so it sold badly, though it did better in Britain. He moved to New York and, after initial failure, produced many articles and started writing his first novel, Sister Carrie. While covering a strike in Pittsburgh, he became fully aware of the disparity between the rich and the poor. He became a newspaper reporter, working primarily in Chicago and St. Dreiser attended Indiana University for one year and then dropped out. ![]() ![]() Two years before his birth, his father was ruined when the wool factory he was managing burned to the ground. Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871. ![]()
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