Newspaper Days: An Autobiography

by Theodore Dreiser

Book Overview

During Christmas 1891, Dreiser, age twenty-one and miserable as a bill collector in Chicago, decided to find a job as a reporter: "I conceived of newspapers as wonderlands in which all concerned were prosperous and happy. . . I was also determined to shake off the garments of the commonplace in which I seemed swathed and step forth into the public arena, where I could be seen and understood for what I was--a writer." He at last found a slot at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574231383
• ISBN13: 9781574231380
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 771 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"