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 Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life is a collection of twenty essays by Theodore Dreiser. "Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub" "Change" "Some Aspects of Our National Character" "The Dream" "The American Financier" "The Toil of the Laborer" "Personality" "A Counsel to Perfection" "Neurotic America and the Sex Impulse" "Secrecy-Its Value" "Ideals, Morals, and the Daily Newspaper" "Equation Inevitable" "Phantasmagoria" "Ashtoreth" "The Reformer" "Marriage and Divorce" "More Democracy or Less? An Inquiry" "The Essential Tragedy of Life" "Life, Art and America" "The Court of Progress"