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In this volume of reminiscences and correspondence, Theodore Dreiser's literary secretary and lover, the late Marguerite Tjader, re-created her professional and personal experiences with the novelist and many of his noted contemporaries. Along the narrative way, she also speaks about her editorship of the important left-wing magazine Direction during the late thirties and early forties. Her memoir is edited, prefaced, and endnoted by Dreiser scholar Lawrence E. Hussman (Dreiser and His Fiction: A Twentieth-Century Quest). Also included are Dreiser's and Tjader's contributions to Direction. This book should establish once and for all that Dreiser was not the womanizer of myth but a thoughtful and sensitive lover, as well as one of the United States' greatest writers.

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The Author: The daughter of wealthy evangelists, Marguerite Tjader was the author of a novel, Borealis (1930), as well as Theodore Dreiser: A New Dimension (1965), Mother Elisabeth (1972), and Birgitta of Sweden (1980). In addition to her political work before and during World War II, she was active in the international peace movement and in Catholic ecumenism from the 1960s until her death in 1986 at the age of eighty-four. The Editor: Lawrence E. Hussman is Professor Emeritus at Wright State University and Visiting Professor of American Literature at Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal.

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