Sherwood Anderson

Precious McKenzie Stearns (Rocky Mountain College)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 13 Sep 1876
Died 8 Mar 1941
Activity 1916-1941

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Other

Autobiographer
Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Editor
Essayist
Letter-writer/ Diarist
Poet
Soldier
Travel writer

Resources

Anderson's Works

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Sherwood Anderson is best known for his short story cycle

Winesburg, Ohio

(1919). Because of Anderson’s treatment of small town Americana, Anderson has been called “one of the purest, most intense poets of loneliness” in the modern literary canon (Gold 548). In his time, Anderson was influential in the literary circle that included Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway.

Sherwood Anderson was born on September 13, 1876 in Camden, Ohio. His parents, Irwin and Emma Anderson, were poor and moved frequently until Anderson was almost seven years old. His father worked as a harness repairman and as a house and sign painter. From the age of seven until he was nineteen Anderson lived in Clyde, Ohio. It was Clyde he modeled Winesburg, Ohio after, only slightly

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Citation: McKenzie Stearns, Precious. "Sherwood Anderson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=113, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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