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Inauguration of the Pennsylvania Edition of the complete works of Theodore Dreiser, which promises to rival such projects as the Mark Twain edition centered at Berkeley, is prompting explanation of the genesis, the composition and revision, and the printing and publishing history of each work in the Dreiser canon as needed to establish the definitive version of each text. The present paper accounts for the protracted stages of composition and revision that textual critics must assess to produce such an edition of The "Genius". The aim of this paper is to shed light on the first edition of The "Genius", published in October 1915, beginning with the earliest but abortive draft of 1900, proceeding to the complete holograph of 1910-1911, successive typescripts and revisions, and, finally, key differences between galley proofs and the published novel.
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