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Jr. Thomas Dixon
1864–1946
A preacher, lecturer, and bestselling novelist, this controversial American writer turned his views on race and politics into hugely influential fiction and drama. He is remembered above all for works that helped shape the racist mythology behind The Clansman and, later, The Birth of a Nation.
15 Audiobooks
The Foolish Virgin
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
A Man of the People: A Drama of Abraham Lincoln
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Fall of a Nation A Sequel to the Birth of a Nation
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Root of Evil
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Thomas Dixon
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
The way of a man : a story of the new woman
by Jr. Thomas Dixon
About the author
Born in Shelby, North Carolina, in 1864, Thomas Dixon Jr. worked across several careers: he was a Baptist minister, a lawyer, a lecturer, a state legislator, a playwright, and a novelist. He became nationally known in the early 1900s through popular fiction and public speaking, drawing on the tensions of the post-Civil War South.
His best-known books include The Leopard's Spots (1902) and The Clansman (1905). Those works promoted white supremacist ideas and portrayed the Ku Klux Klan sympathetically, which is the main reason Dixon remains historically significant today.
Dixon's legacy is closely tied to film history as well. The Clansman helped inspire D. W. Griffith's 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation, a landmark in cinema that is also widely condemned for its racism and its celebration of the Klan. He died in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1946.