(Terre Haute 1871, Hollywood, 1945) The American novelist is best known for his novel An American Tragedy (1925), which delved into the dark motives of behavioral psychology in his country's society. The novel was successful. huge audience, but it divided the critics: some reproached him for his formal sloppiness and the grammatical neglect of his language, while others claimed that the story told was so powerful that it made any stylistic objection insignificant. that it was "the suggestive and magnificent worst written novel in the world".

Under the influence of the English naturalist Herbert Spencer and other biological and social theories of the time, Dreiser shaped a work of fiction marked by the idea that man, as a being, is naked before superior powers, since there are instincts and forces social issues beyond your control.