Grace Brown, who was killed at Big Moose Lake, inspired Roberta Alden, who drowns in his "An American Tragedy"
..... guilty of murdering his pregnant girlfriend, Grace Brown, at Big Moose Lake... [DOC] [TLE] Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: An American Tragedy [PAR] Dreiser used the Chester Gillette/Grace Brown episode as the basis for a story 
that ... she doesn't know about his involvement with a poor factory girl named 
Roberta Alden.