Theodore Dreiser letterbooks on "The Genius," 1915-1916.

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Theodore Dreiser letterbooks on "The Genius," 1915-1916.

Correspondence and clippings concerning the suppression of Dreiser's novel "The Genius" under censorship pressure from the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Volume 1 consists of correspondence and articles on the book's suppression; v. 2 consists of a collection of signed protests of the suppression. Correspondents whose letters are in v. 1 include Dreiser, Harold Hersey, and Frank Harris, among others. Signers of protest letters in v. 2 include Max Eastman, Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, John Reed, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Margaret Sanger, Upton Sinclair, Booth Tarkington, and many other writers and intellectuals of the time. Most of the letters are copies of a form letter circulated by Harold Hersey of the Authors' League of America.

2 v. ; 32 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7084146

Cornell University Library

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