西奥多·德莱塞(1871—1945),美国现代小说家,与海明威、福克纳一起并称为美国现代小说三巨头。德莱塞出生在印第安纳州一个普通的德国移民家庭。21岁大学毕业后从事新闻记者工作,期间几乎走遍美国所有大中城市,对美国普遍存在的一些社会问题有深刻的洞悉和见解。他的大量新闻素材成为后来他文学创作的灵感元素。29岁时,德莱 Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), American modern novelist, together with Hemingway and Faulkner, is called the Big Three of American modern novels. Dreiser was born in an ordinary German immigrant family in Indiana. After working as a journalist at the age of 21 after graduating from college, he traveled almost all the major cities in the United States and had profound insights and insights into some of the social problems that are prevalent in the United States. His large amount of news material became the inspiration behind his literary creation. At the age of 29, Dreyer