西奥图·德莱塞是美国现代著名的批判现实主义作家。一八七一年,他出生于美国印第安那州一个贫困的德国移民家庭。少年时代,他一边上学,一边拾煤渣,帮小工,以补贴家庭用度。十六岁当学徒。十八岁入大学学习,一年后因生活所迫而辍学,便当了职员。早在中学时代,德莱塞就开始大量阅读狄更斯、巴尔扎克等名家的作品。这些作家对他日后的创作影响很大。一八九二年,德莱塞开始从事新闻工作。他先后在芝加哥、匹兹堡和纽约等几个大城市的报馆担任编辑和新闻记者,这使他有机会广泛接触社会生活。德 Theodore Dreiser is a famous modern American critical realist writer. In 1871, he was born in a poor German immigrant family in Indiana, United States. In his youth, he went to school while picking up cinders and helping small laborers to subsidize family expenses. As a 16-year-old apprentice. At the age of eighteen, she went to college and dropped out of school a year later due to lack of life. As early as in high school, Dreiser started to read a lot of works such as Dickens, Balzac and other famous people. These writers have a great influence on his later creation. In 1892, Dreiser started his journalism. He has served as editor and journalist at newspapers in several metropolitan cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York, giving him the opportunity to have extensive access to social life. Germany