Helen
Patges
Dreiser
formerly Richardson
Born in USA
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
— married
1944 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 61
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Aug 2014
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Biography
Helen Patges Richardson's grandmother(Esther Schanab Parks) was a sister of Theodore Dreiser's mother (Esther Schanab Parks).
From 1919 until they married in 1944, Helen was the mistress of Theodore Dreiser. Helen was strikingly beautiful and she wished for a movie career, but after only a few movies (one with Mabel Normand) gave it up to be with Theodore in New York.
After his first wife died in 1942, she married him. After his death in 1945, she wrote her biography, "My Life with Dreiser."
In the years after his death, she worked to get Theodore's final novel, The Stoic, ready for publication. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 1951 and afterward lived in Gresham Oregan under the care of her sister Myrtle Patges Butcher. After her death 22 Sept 1955, she was buried beside Theodore.
Burial: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Glendale Los Angeles County California, USA
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