An American Tragedy was a 1925 novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945).
It was based on the murder of the pregnant Grace Brown by her boyfriend, social climber Chester Gillette, at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks in 1906.
What was the actual case behind An American Tragedy?
by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature
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