TLS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, February 21, 1938. Letter to Mr. Kowan, in part: “I think creative writing has more to do with emotion than any other single factor. Generalized and intensified feeling for life is what is expressed. When a writer traces the course of a complete emotional cycle, what you might call a selected causal chain, one view of it, of whatever, he has his work laid out, and the name by which it is called, novel, short story, play or poem, or whatever, really comes after the fact. It is the amount of material which is involved in the feeling which determines the form of the work. When you ask what is fiction and what is the novel I must say that I think the question is useless. The only place where such questions come up are ‘borderline cases’ where personal opinion is, after all, the only criterion.” Dreiser makes a single correction to the text. In very good to fine condition, with intersecting folds, and light block of toning over the signature. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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