Dreiser continued his education continuously, though, by reading a number of books spanning subjects like science, philosophy, and, of course, fiction novels.
He attended the university for a year, and then took a job as a reporter. He held a few simple, dead-end jobs until a former teacher of his named Mildred Fielding came to him in 1889, and persuaded him, and paid for a year of his tuition, at the University of Bloomington-despite the fact that Dreiser never finished High School, though he was a good student. Shortly after turning sixteen, Dreiser moved to Chicago to get away from his family's poor standing in Warsaw, Indiana. His mother, on the other hand, took in boarders, washed clothes for their more well-off neighbors, and was deeply troubled by her own disability to provide her family with a better life. In his autobiography, Dreiser wrote that whenever trouble came his family's way, his father would insist on the ideal that "true happiness was to be found only with God in the afterlife". Dreiser was "forced" to adhere to the very strict teachings of his school, centered on the Roman Catholic religious denomination, which most likely to lead the deep criticisms of the Catholic religion prominent in his later writings.ĭreiser was very fond of his mother as he was growing up, while blaming most of his family's problems on his father, Johann. During the first sixteen years of his life he moved around in Indiana, living in five different towns, including a brief stint in Chicago at times, he only moved with part of his entire family (his mother and two younger siblings, Ed and Claire).Īs a result the numerous relocations and other family troubles, Dreiser's youth was an emotionally unstable time for him, further worsened by the teachings of his German American catholic school. He was born the ninth of ten children, and lived a rather harsh childhood with his family. Theodore Dreiser was born on August 27, 1871, from parents Sarah Schanab and Johann Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. Overview Full Name: Herman Theodore Dreiser Jump To: Overview :: Biography :: Sister Carrie
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