Ideal is the sun of life. ————Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), a pioneer of modern American novels and one of the realist writers , he is also a naturalist, and his works are close to the lives of the people, honest, bold, and full of the passion of life.

Dreiser was born in a bankrupt family of small owners in Indiana. He spent his childhood in hardship and went to Chicago to make a living on his own before graduating from high school. In 1889, he entered Indiana University and dropped out again after a year. In 1892, he began his career as a journalist.

His masterpiece "Sister Carrie" truly reproduces the American society at that time, and "American Tragedy" is Dreiser's most accomplished work, allowing people to clearly see the true situation of American society, " It still has great practical significance."