Sherwood Anderson
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born
September 13, 1876
died
March 08, 1941
gender
male
place of birth
Camden, Ohio, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Sherwood Anderson was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. That work's influence on American fiction was profound, and its literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell and others.
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"In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt."
— Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio)
— Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio)
"The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees."
— Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio)
— Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio)
"From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy."
— Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio)
— Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio)
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