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Why did Theodore Dreiser resign from his magazine-editing job in 1910?
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Theodore Dreiser
His first published novel Sister Carrie had a limited printing because of the controversial subject matter.
Theodore Dreiser was forced to resign from his position as editor in chief of several women’s magazines in 1910 after engaging in an affair with the teenage daughter of a colleague.1