Sherwood Anderson
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"In his memoir A Moveable Feast, published after his death, Hemingway writes "I thought of Miss Stein and Sherwood Anderson and egotism and mental laziness versus discipline and I thought 'who is calling who a lost generation?'""--Sholem Stein "Sherwood Anderson, in his short story collection Winesburg, Ohio, included a prefatory chapter titled "The Book of the Grotesque" in which he established the idea of the grotesque character as an overarching principle in the book." --Sholem Stein |
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Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer.
At the time, he moved to Chicago and was eventually married three additional times. His most enduring work is the short-story sequence Winesburg, Ohio, which launched his career. Throughout the 1920s, Anderson published several short story collections, novels, memoirs, books of essays, and a book of poetry. Though his books sold reasonably well, Dark Laughter (1925), a novel inspired by Anderson's time in New Orleans during the 1920s, was his only bestseller.
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Works
Novels
- Windy McPherson's Son (1916)
- Marching Men (1917)
- Poor White (1920)
- Many Marriages (1923)
- Dark Laughter (1925)
- Tar: A Midwest Childhood (1926, semi-autobiographical novel)
- Beyond Desire (1932)
- Kit Brandon: A Portrait (1936)
Short story collections
- Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
- The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions From American Life in Tales and Poems (1921)
- Horses and Men (1923)
- Death in the Woods and Other Stories (1933)
Poetry
- Mid-American Chants (1918)
- A New Testament (1927)
Drama
- Plays, Winesburg and Others (1937)
Nonfiction
- A Story Teller's Story (1922, memoir)
- The Modern Writer (1925, essays)
- Sherwood Anderson's Notebook (1926, memoir)
- Alice and The Lost Novel (1929)
- Hello Towns! (1929, collected newspaper articles)
- Nearer the Grass Roots (1929, essays)
- The American County Fair (1930, essays)
- Perhaps Women (1931, essays)
- No Swank (1934, essays)
- Puzzled America (1935, essays)
- A Writer's Conception of Realism (1939, essays)
- Home Town (1940, photographs and commentary)
Published posthumously
- Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs (1942)
- The Sherwood Anderson Reader, edited by Paul Rosenfeld (1947)
- The Portable Sherwood Anderson, edited by Horace Gregory (1949)
- Letters of Sherwood Anderson, edited by Howard Mumford Jones and Walter B. Rideout (1953)
- Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories, edited by Maxwell Geismar (1962)
- Return to Winesburg: Selections from Four Years of Writing for a Country Newspaper, edited by Ray Lewis White (1967)
- The Buck Fever Papers, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor (1971, collected newspaper articles)
- Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein: Correspondence and Personal Essays, edited by Ray Lewis White (1972)
- The "Writer's Book," edited by Martha Mulroy Curry (1975, unpublished works)
- France and Sherwood Anderson: Paris Notebook, 1921, edited by Michael Fanning (1976)
- Sherwood Anderson: The Writer at His Craft, edited by Jack Salzman, David D. Anderson, and Kichinosuke Ohashi (1979)
- A Teller's Tales, selected and introduced by Frank Gado (1983)
- Sherwood Anderson: Selected Letters: 1916–1933, edited by Charles E. Modlin (1984)
- Letters to Bab: Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finely, 1916–1933, edited by William A. Sutton (1985)
- The Sherwood Anderson Diaries, 1936–1941, edited by Hilbert H. Campbell (1987)
- Sherwood Anderson: Early Writings, edited by Ray Lewis White (1989)
- Sherwood Anderson's Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, edited by Charles E. Modlin (1989)
- Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters, edited by Ray Lewis White (1991)
- Certain Things Last: The Selected Stories of Sherwood Anderson, edited by Charles E. Modlin (1992)
- Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson, edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor and Charles E. Modlin (1997)
- The Egg and Other Stories, edited with an introduction by Charles E. Modlin (1998)
- Collected Stories, edited by Charles Baxter (2012)