Theodore Dreiser 
Twelve men 

I – Peter

II – A Doer of the Word

III – My Brother Paul

IV – The Country Doctor

V – Culhane, the Solid Man

VI – A True Patriarch

VII – De Maupassant, Jr.

VIII – The Village Feudists

IX – Vanity, Vanity

X – The Mighty Rourke

XI – A Mayor and His People

XII – W.L.S.