For 10 points, name this pioneer of American naturalism who wrote Sister Carrie.
Lionel Trilling contrasted the liberal reception of this author with that of Henry James in his polemical essay "Reality in America." Stuart Sherman emphasized this writer's ethnic heritage in essays attacking his fiction as "barbaric" and exemplifying a kind of "animalism." This novelist is depicted as a boy "staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow" and as a man who "watched for men and women hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities" in a portrait of him as "the Poet" by his friend Edgar Lee Masters, who included it in the Spoon River Anthology. His early works were championed by his friend and sometimes editor H. L. Mencken, though they quarreled over his novel about the painter Eugene Witla, The "Genius". Sinclair Lewis said that "the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman" was brought to America by this man's novel depicting the downfall of George Hurstwood. For 10 points, name this pioneer of American naturalism who wrote Sister Carrie.
Lionel Trilling contrasted the liberal reception of this author with that of Henry James in his polemical essay "Reality in America."
Theodore Dreiser [or Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser]