Theodore Dreiser 
An American Tragedy 

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser   was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser’s best known novels include 
Sister Carrie (1900) and 
An American Tragedy (1925). In 1930 he was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature.