WRITER

Theodore Dreiser

1871 - 1945

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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (; August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodore Dreiser has received more than 1,039,252 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Theodore Dreiser is the 595th most popular writer (down from 574th in 2019), the 606th most popular biography from United States (up from 610th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Writer.

Theodore Dreiser is most famous for his novels Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sister Carrie
1900
The Titan
1914
An American tragedy
1900
Jennie Gerhardt
Indiana
Features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions.
1911
The "genius"
1915

Page views of Theodore Dreisers by language

Over the past year Theodore Dreiser has had the most page views in the with 142,066 views, followed by English (124,431), and Ukrainian (18,169). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Mingrelian (168.09%), Karakalpak (139.46%), and Macedonian (127.27%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Theodore Dreiser ranks 595 out of 7,302. Before him are Bruno Schulz, D. H. Lawrence, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ellen G. White, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, and Ismail Gaspirali. After him are John Donne, Madame de La Fayette, Hermann Broch, Napoleon Hill, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Karl Kraus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Theodore Dreiser ranks 18. Before him are Albert Lebrun, Heinrich Mann, Victor Grignard, Lesya Ukrainka, Elena of Montenegro, and Ioannis Metaxas. After him are Georges Rouault, František Kupka, Giacomo Balla, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, and Stjepan Radić. Among people deceased in 1945, Theodore Dreiser ranks 51. Before him are Oskar Dirlewanger, Josef Kramer, Hans Geiger, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Robert Ritter von Greim, and Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen. After him are Karl Hanke, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Robert H. Goddard, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and Fumimaro Konoe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theodore Dreiser ranks 606 out of 20,380. Before him are Jim Jarmusch (1953), Art Garfunkel (1941), Goldie Hawn (1945), Ellen G. White (1827), Ice-T (1958), and Jada Pinkett Smith (1971). After him are Telly Savalas (1922), Napoleon Hill (1883), Matthew Perry (1969), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Margaret Mead (1901), and Val Kilmer (1959).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Theodore Dreiser ranks 59. Before him are T. S. Eliot (1888), Sidney Sheldon (1917), William S. Burroughs (1914), James Baldwin (1924), Allen Ginsberg (1926), and Ellen G. White (1827). After him are Napoleon Hill (1883), John Irving (1942), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Michael Crichton (1942), and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811).

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