Not longĪfter, he made a start in journalism and wrote for newspapers in Chicago, St. School teachers he did manage a year at Indiana University in 1889–90. Theodore’sĮducation was desultory, but through the generosity of one of his elementary The case of several of the girls, into liaisons with married men. The other Dreiser children, with theĮxception of Theodore, were less successful: all of them rebelled against theirįather’s dogmatic Catholicism, and some of them drifted into petty crime or, in Name to the less Germanic “Dresser” and went on stage where he became famous asĪ vaudeville performer and songwriter. Paul, the eldest of the ten Dreiser children, changed his Searched for steady employment and tried to establish a stable home life for In the Midwest, his parents moving frequently from one town to another as they Immigrant father and a German-Moravian Mennonite mother. Theodore Dreiser was the son of a German Catholic
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