Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio on the 13th of September, 1876. He attended school only intermittently, while helping to support his family by working 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. During the Spanish-American war Anderson fought in Cuba and returned after the war to Ohio, for a final year of schooling at Wittenberg College, Springfield. Anderson's two first novels were Windy McPherson’s Son (1916) and Marching Men (1917), both containing the psychological themes of inner lives of Midwestern villages, the pursuit of success and disillusionment. His third novel, Winesburg, Ohio, was "half individual tales, half long novel form", as the author himself described it. It consisted of twenty-three thematically related sketches and stories. Written in a simple, realistic language illuminated by a muted lyricism, Anderson dramatized crucial episodes in the lives of his characters. In 1921 Anderson received the first Dial Award for his contribution to American literature. After traveling extensively in Europe, he returned back to the United States, settling in New Orleans, where he shared an apartment with William Faulkner. From New Orleans Anderson moved to New York for some time, and from there finally to Marion, Virginia, where he built a country house, and worked as a farmer and journalist. In 1927 he bought both of Marion's weekly newspapers, one Republican, one Democrat, and edited them for two years. To earn extra income he continued his series of lectures throughout the country. Commissioned by Today magazine, Anderson studied the labor conditions during the Depression and collected his articles in Puzzled America (1935). Anderson's newspaper pieces were collected in Hello Towns (1929), Return to Winesburg (1967) and The Buck Fever Papers (1971).
Anderson's best works influenced almost every important American writer of the next generation. He also encouraged William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway in their writing aspirations. Anderson died of peritonitis on an unofficial good-will tour to South America, at Christobal, Canal Zone, on March 8, in 1941.
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Winesburg, Ohio
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A story teller's story
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Marching Men
17 editions - first published in 1917 Read -
Mid-American chants
15 editions - first published in 1918 Read -
Dark laughter
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The triumph of the egg: a book of impressions from American life in tales and poems
11 editions - first published in 1921 Read -
The portable Sherwood Anderson
9 editions - first published in 1949 Borrow -
Beyond desire
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Sherwood Anderson's memoirs
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Return to Winesburg: selections from four years of writing for a country newspaper.
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Winesburg, Ohio
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Nearer the grass roots
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Home town: photos. by Farm Security photographers
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Tar: a midwest childhood
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Puzzled America
4 editions - first published in 1935 Borrow -
Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter R. Rideout.
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Letters of Sherwood Anderson
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The Sherwood Anderson reader
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No swank
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Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life
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Hello towns!
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Many marriages
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Perhaps women
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Marching Men
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Kit Brandon: a portrait
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The Buck Fever papers: Edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor.
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La Mort dans les bois
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A new testament
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The American county fair
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Sherwood Anderson
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Tar a Midwest Childhood: a critical text.
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The Egg
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Molti matrimoni: romanzo.
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Letters to Bab: Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley, 1916-33
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Selected letters
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6 Mid-America chants: 11 Midwest photographs
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No Royalty A/C Winesburg,ohio
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The Free company presents... Above suspicion; adapted by the Free company from an original sketch
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A writer's conception of realism: An address delivered on January 20, 1939, at Olivet college.
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L' homme qui devint femme
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Marching men; a critical text
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Sherwood Anderson y yo
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Kit Brandon, a portrait
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Sherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein: correspondence and personal essays
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Puzzled America (History - United States)
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Le triomphe de l'oeuf
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Aus dem nirgends ins nichts: amerikanische novelle
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Winesburg, Ohio. Eine Reihe Erzählungen aus dem Kleinstadtleben Ohios
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The indispensable Sherwood Anderson
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Memoirs
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Plays: Winesburg and others
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Sherwood Anderson, the writer at his craft
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Izbrannoe
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Sherwood Anderson's love letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson
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Writer at His Craft
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Riso nero
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The "Writer's book"
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Mid-west Childhood
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The Sherwood Anderson diaries, 1936-1941
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Winesburg Ohio (Voices : a Treasury of Regional American Fiction, Book 2)
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Sherwood Anderson's secret love letters: for Eleanor, a letter a day
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Dark Laughter
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DARK LAUGHTER
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American spring song
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Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
1 edition - first published in 1919 Read -
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: with variant readings and annotations
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Marching men / by Sherwood Anderson
1 edition - first published in 1917 Read -
The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems
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Winesburg, Ohio
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Southern odyssey: selected writings by Sherwood Anderson
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A critical edition of Sherwood Anderson's Many marriages
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Lives of Animals
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Winesburg, Ohio (Twelve-Point)
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6 mid-American chants
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HORSES AND MEN
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Winesburg, Ohio
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Dark laughter
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Winesburg, Ohio
1 edition - first published in 1980 Borrow -
Winesburg, Ohio
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Windesburg, Ohio: a group of tales of Ohio small town life. Introd. by Ernest Boyd.
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A new testament
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The Buck Fever papers
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The American county fair
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The Sherwood Anderson reader
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Sherwood Anderson's notebook
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Perhaps women
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Nearer the grass roots
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The Triumph of the Egg a Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems
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Mid-American chants
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The portable Sherwood Anderson
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No swank
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Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life
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Kit Brandon
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Letters of Sherwood Anderson
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The modern writer
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Windy McPherson's son
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Return to Winesburg
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Hello towns!
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Dark laughter
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Many marriages
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