While working as a reporter for the Saint Louis Republic, he wrote the text for a comic opera about a cranky farmer who is transported back in time to the Aztec empire.  
While working as a reporter for the Saint Louis Republic, he wrote the text for a comic opera about a cranky farmer who is transported back in time to the Aztec empire.  His work includes the poems of Moods, Cadenced and Declaimed and plays like The Hand of the Potter, but he is better known for his novels, including The Bulwark and a trilogy based on the life of Charles Yerkes.  FTP, identify this author of The Financier, Jennie Gerhardt, and Sister Carrie.
While working as a reporter for the Saint Louis Republic, he wrote the text for a comic opera about a cranky farmer who is transported back in time to the Aztec empire.  
Theodore Dreiser