Download or read book A Traveler at Forty (1913) by Theodore Dreiser (World's Classics) written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.