“He possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no m

“He possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters. ” This is a description most suitable to the American writer（）.
A、Henry James
B、Theodore Dreiser
C、W. D. Howells
D、Nathaniel Hawthorne
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：本题考查的是德莱塞的人生经历与文学成就。西奥多·德莱塞是美国现代小说的先驱、现实主义作家之一，他不具备任何对他成为作家有帮助的条件，他没有钱，没有有权的朋友，没有受过正规的教育，也没有良好的家族传统。