Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Frederick Kensett, James McNeill Whistler and George Catlin. Dreiser's own account of his years as a young reporter in Chicago, St Louis and Pittsburgh - the papers, the poverty, the women and the moment he understood what he wanted to write. Published in 1922, it was later reissued as Newspaper Days. This edition includes 59 plates of paintings bound with the text, among them works by George Bellows, Albert Bierstadt and George Catlin.