Change by Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser was an American writer born in Indiana in 1871 and died in Hollywood, California in 1945. He was best known for his novels “An American Tragedy” based on the murder of Grace Brown in Upstate New York in 1906, and “Sister Carrie”. Both novels were made into movies. He grew up extremely poor and was the 12th child of 13 children. His father was a German immigrant. His mother was Mennonite.

H L Menken scholar and critic wrote, “He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling, and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked, and hoped."

Change is an essay about change and why we should love it or at least, not fear it.