Homage to Theodore Dreiser, August 27, 1871--December 28, 1945 : on the centennial of his birth / Robert Penn Warren.

Author's inscription in ink on flyleaf: Dreiser was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, in Los Angeles, among the movie moguls and movie stars and their hangers-on, for which final glory he had, no doubt, yearned. At the funeral ceremony, the Congregational minister who had prayed by the bedside spoke, then John Howard Lawson, a successful movie writer who had shepherded Dreiser into the Communist Party. By way of conclusion, Charlie Chaplin read Dreiser's poem "The Road I Came," the last lines of which are: Oh what is this, That knows the road I came?, from Homage to Theodore Dreiser [underlined], [signed] Robert Penn Warren.