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In Newspaper Days , first published in 1922 under the title A Book About Myself , Theodore Dreiser describes his experiences as a reporter for newspapers in Chicago, St Louis, Pittsburgh and New York City from 1892 to 1895. This edition, which restores previously expurgated passages and points out how Dreiser’s recollections differ from fact, puts this document into its full and proper form. Dreiser gives not only a first-hand picture of the newspaper world of the era, but also a biographical document for three of the most formative years of his young manhood. In his desire to tell the full truth about his intellectual and emotional coming of age, he describes events that shaped his mature attitudes toward American life and society in general, and journalism and women in particular. Inevitably, in endeavouring to tell all, Dreiser recounted erotic experiences, doing so with a frankness and detail that he afterwards concluded were too candid for the reading public of 1922. These he toned down or excised altogether. Moreover, writing this memoir in his middle age, he found patterns and meanings in his experience that were not obvious to him as a young man. In the process of imposing order upon the welter of remembered details - and as a consequence of normal memory lapses - he introduced a host of relatively minor deviations from fact.
