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Sherwood Anderson

Born

in Camden, Ohio, The United States

September 13, 1876

Died

March 08, 1941

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Ivan Turgenev, Gertrude Stein, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman ...more

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Often autobiographical, works of American writer Sherwood Anderson include Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

He supported his family and consequently never finished high school. He successfully managed a paint factory in Elyria before 1912 and fathered three children with the first of his four wives. In 1912, Anderson deserted his family and job.

In early 1913, he moved to Chicago, where he devoted more time to his imagination. He broke with considered materialism and convention to commit to art as a consequently heroic model for youth.

Mainly know for his short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. One can hear its profound influence on fiction in Ernest Miller Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Clayton Wolfe, John Ernst Steinbe ...more

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Sherwood Anderson’s books

Average rating: 3.81 · 46,355 ratings · 4,284 reviews · 443 distinct works • Similar authors

	Winesburg, Ohio 3.84 avg rating — 37,178 ratings — published 1919 — 350 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Woods and Other Stories 3.83 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 1924 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Egg and Other Stories 3.81 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1921 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poor White 3.69 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 1920 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hands 3.65 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 1919 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Laughter 3.12 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1925 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Triumph of the Egg 3.84 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1957 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cuentos de mujeres solas by Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever 3.50 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Woods 3.51 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1933 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Want to Know Why 2.81 avg rating — 149 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Sherwood Anderson (?)

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

tags: accident, disappointment, love

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Polls

January 2017 New School Classic Poll

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - 258 pgs, 1989

47 votes, 19.3%

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - 218 pgs, 1996

38 votes, 15.6%

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 242 pgs, 1902

34 votes, 13.9%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - 412 pgs, 1905

25 votes, 10.2%

Ross Poldark by Winston Graham - 400 pgs, 1945

17 votes, 7.0%

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 236 pgs, 1922

15 votes, 6.1%

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, 184 pgs, 1946

15 votes, 6.1%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 367 pgs, 1984

12 votes, 4.9%

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson - 240 pgs, 1919

10 votes, 4.1%

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, 198 pgs, 1940

8 votes, 3.3%

The Reivers: A Reminiscence by William Faulkner - 320 pgs, 1962

7 votes, 2.9%

The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau, 320 pgs, 1964

6 votes, 2.5%

The Vagabond by Colette - 252 pgs, 1910

6 votes, 2.5%

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout, 285 pgs, 1934

4 votes, 1.6%

244 total votes

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