The Financier

The Financier
First edition
AuthorTheodore Dreiser
LanguageEnglish
SeriesA Trilogy of Desire
PublisherHarper & Brothers
Publication date
1912
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Followed byThe Titan 

The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his lengthy work as The Financier. The second part appeared in 1914 as The Titan; the third volume of his Trilogy of Desire was also Dreiser's final novel, The Stoic (1947).