Theodore Dreiser wrote "An American Tragedy"; Philip Roth, "The Great American" this
TheTLS [PAR] Jul 16, 2014 ... Lawrence Buell's study of the concept of the Great American Novel (or GAN ... 
one critic believed that a GAN could be written by someone who was not white, ... 
Theodore Dreiser's comparable An American Tragedy (1925), once ... up from 
narrative is Philip Roth's late trilogy American Pastoral (1997),... [DOC] [TLE] Have you read the 200 'best American novels'?