Fiction · 1911
The Grain of Dust
A Novel
A prominent, comfortably married-in-his-own-mind lawyer becomes obsessed with his stenographer — a woman with none of his social standing and, as it turns out, considerably more clarity about what she actually wants than he has — and the novel follows what happens when he has to choose between the life he's built and the one thing in it he didn't plan for.
David Graham Phillips published The Grain of Dust in 1911, the same year he was murdered in New York — one of a long run of novels examining class, marriage, and money in early twentieth-century America.
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1867–1911 · Victorian
David Graham Phillips (1867–1911) was an American journalist and novelist from Madison, Indiana, who worked as a reporter for the New York Sun and then the New York World before turning to muckraking and fiction full-time. His 1906 magazine series "The Treason of the Senate," exposing corrupt ties between senators and business interests, helped drive the constitutional amendment for the direct election of senators; his novels, including Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise and The Conflict, applied the same reforming instinct to American capitalism, politics and the position of women. He was shot and killed outside his New York apartment in January 1911 by a delusional stalker who believed a Phillips novel had libeled his family.
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