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Dawn: An Autobiography Of Early Youth

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Dawn, the journalist turned novelist Theodore Dreiser's brutally candid autobiography of his first nineteen years (1871-1890), was composed between 1912 and 1915, but withheld by Dreiser due to his misgivings about the potential impact of its frank revelations of adolescent sexuality, daring even by today's standards. On its eventual publication in 1931, critics recognized ...more
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Published September 1st 1998 by Black Sparrow Press
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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.

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