In one novel, Etta returns home after the suicide of her brother Stewart and stroke of her mother Benecia to find that her father believes he has betrayed his Quaker faith.  
Characters created by this author include one who has his life story told in a series of flashbacks as he walks from his car to his old apartment and back and an underwater tunnel worker who survives a cave-in named McGlathery.  In one novel, Etta returns home after the suicide of her brother Stewart and stroke of her mother Benecia to find that her father believes he has betrayed his Quaker faith.  In addition to that novel about Solon Barnes, those aforementioned stories, The Old Neighborhood and St. Columba and the River, were contained in the collection Chains.  The protagonist is fired in the midst of his affair with Suzanne Dale in his novel about the artist Eugene Witla, and the protagonist of another novel receives a confession of love from Lester Kane on his deathbed.  This author's other works include a trilogy about a man who has an affair with Berenice Fleming and fails to bribe the city council into passing his bill establishing a transportation commission in Chicago, Frank Cowperwood.  Other novels by this author include one about a lover of Charles Drouet and George Hurstwood and one about a man who causes Roberta Alden to drown when he hits her with his camera.  FTP, name this American novelist of The Bulwark, Jennie Gerhardt, The Titan, and An American Tragedy.
Characters created by this author include one who has his life story told in a series of flashbacks as he walks from his car to his old apartment and back and an underwater tunnel worker who survives a cave-in named McGlathery.  
Theodore Dreiser