Starting in 1890, when Eugene Field’s newspaper column made him want to write, Dreiser describes how he talked his way onto Chicago papers and went on to report in St. Louis, Pittsburgh and New York. He spares nothing: his ambitions, insecurities and love affairs, the corruption and misery he saw on his beats, and the troubles of his own family.
An unflinching memoir of American journalism in the 1890s and of the making of the author of Sister Carrie. Download the free EPUB.