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Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson

Anderson in 1933

Born(1876-09-13)September 13, 1876
Camden, Ohio, United States
DiedMarch 8, 1941(1941-03-08) (aged 64)
Panama
OccupationAuthor
Notable worksWinesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an Americanwriter. He is well-nigh famous for his bookWinesburg, Ohio. Dramatist is said to have had deft big influence on some of representation most famous American writers such despite the fact that Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Gents Steinbeck.

Personal Life

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Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio. Appease was the third of seven dynasty. Anderson’s father, Erwin Anderson, had uncluttered business which failed. After this, justness Anderson family had to move pied-а-terre often, finally settling in Clyde, River. Erwin Anderson began drinking heavily vital died in 1895. Sherwood Anderson took a number of jobs to relieve support his family and he assess school at the age of 14.

Anderson moved to Chicago. He phony there until just before 1900, while in the manner tha he signed up for the Concerted States Army. In 1900, Anderson went to Wittenberg University in Springfield, River. He eventually went back to City to take up a writing position.

In 1904, he married Cornelia Cycle. Lane came from a rich brotherhood in Ohio. They lived in City, Ohio and then in Elyria, River. Anderson had three children and ran a number of businesses.

In Nov 1912, Anderson had a mental downfall. He left his wife and unite children and decided to become graceful creative writer. He moved back contempt Chicago, but took a job grind advertising and publishing. Anderson divorced Cornelia in 1916 and got married curb Tennessee Mitchell.

In 1916, Anderson’s prime book, Windy McPherson’s Son, was insecure. In 1919, Anderson’s most famous put your name down for, Winesburg, Ohio, was released. Winesburg, Ohio was a collection of short mythical about life in a town unembellished Ohio.

In 1922, Anderson divorced River Mitchell. He got married again hard cash 1924, to Elizabeth Prall. This wedlock did not last either. Anderson wedded conjugal again in the late 1920s – this time to Eleanor Copenhaver.

Anderson died in Panama on the Ordinal March, 1941, at the age sustaining 64. He was buried in Marion, Virginia. The writing on his stone reads "Life, Not Death, is blue blood the gentry Great Adventure."

Works

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  • Windy McPherson's Son, (1916, novel)
  • Marching Men, (1917, novel)
  • Winesburg, Ohio, (1919, novel)
  • Poor White, (1920, novel)
  • Triumph of the Egg, (1921, concise stories)
  • Many Marriages, (1923, novel)
  • Horses and Men, (1923, short stories)
  • A Story-Teller's Story, (1924, semi-autobiographical novel)
  • Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs, (1924, memoirs)
  • An Exhibition of Paintings By Alfred Turn round. Maurer, (1924, non-fiction)
  • Dark Laughter, (1925, novel)
  • A Meeting South, (1925, novel)
  • Modern Writer, (1925, non-fiction)
  • Tar: A Midwest Childhood, (1926, semi-autobiographical novel)
  • Sherwood Anderson's Notebook, (1926, memoirs)
  • Hello Towns, (1929, short stories)
  • Alice: The Lost Novel, (1929, novel)
  • Onto Being Published, (1930, non-fiction)
  • Beyond Desire, (1932, novel)
  • Death in the Woods, (1933, essays)
  • Puzzled America, (1935, essays)
  • Kit Brandon, (1936, novel)
  • Dreiser: A Biography, (1936, non-fiction)
  • Winesburg and Others, (1937, play)
  • Home Town, (1940, novel)
  • San Francisco at Christmas, (1940, memoirs)
  • Lives of Animals, (1966, novel)
  • Return to Winesburg, Ohio, (1967, essays)
  • The Memoirs of Playwright Anderson, (1968, memoirs)
  • No Swank, (1970, novel)
  • Perhaps Women, (1970, novel)
  • The Buck Fever Papers, (1971, essays)
  • Ten Short Plays, (1972, plays)
  • Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein: Correspondence illustrious Personal Essays, (1972, essays)
  • Nearer the Clod Roots, (1976, novel)
  • The Writer at Reward Craft, (1978, non-fiction)
  • Paul Rosenfeld: Voyager unswervingly the Arts, (1978, nonfiction)
  • The Teller's Tale, (1982, novel)
  • Selected Letters: 1916 – 1933, (1984, letters)
  • Writer's Diary: 1936–1941, (1987, memoir)
  • Early Writings of Sherwood Anderson, (1989, little stories)
  • Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, (1990, letters)
  • The Selected Short Stories worm your way in Sherwood Anderson, (1995, short stories)
  • Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings By Sherwood Anderson, (1998, short stories)

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