Sherwood Anderson

1876–1941

1 standalone book

Sherwood Anderson was an American writer who was born on September 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio. He had a limited formal education, as he often left school to work in various jobs, including as a newsboy, housepainter, stock handler, and stable groom. At the age of 17, he moved to Chicago, where he worked as a warehouse laborer and attended business classes at night. Anderson served in the Spanish-American War and later returned to Ohio, where he completed a final year of schooling at Wittenberg College. His early novels, Windy McPherson’s Son (1916) and Marching Men (1917), explored the inner lives of Midwestern characters and themes of success and disillusionment. His third novel, Winesburg, Ohio, was a collection of twenty-three thematically related stories. Anderson received the first Dial Award in 1921. He later lived in New Orleans, where he shared an apartment with William Faulkner. He also lived in New York and Marion, Virginia, where he worked as a farmer and journalist. Anderson wrote and edited newspapers and delivered lectures across the country. He collected his articles in several books, including Puzzled America (1935) and Hello Towns (1929). Anderson influenced many American writers, including William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. He died on March 8, 1941, in the Canal Zone of South America from peritonitis.

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1876