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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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Sherwood Anderson was an American writer who was mainly known for his 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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Sherwood Anderson, (1876-1941), was an American short-story writer and novelist. Although none of his novels was wholly successful, several of his short stories have become classics. Anderson was a major influence on the generation of American writers who came after him. These writers included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner. Anderson thus occupies a place in literary history that cannot Sherwood Anderson was an American writer who was mainly known for his 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.

From PBS.org:
Sherwood Anderson, (1876-1941), was an American short-story writer and novelist. Although none of his novels was wholly successful, several of his short stories have become classics. Anderson was a major influence on the generation of American writers who came after him. These writers included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner. Anderson thus occupies a place in literary history that cannot be fully explained by the literary quality of his work.

Anderson was born on Sept. 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio. He never finished high school because he had to work to support his family. By 1912, he was the successful manager of a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio, and the father of three children by 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 imaginative writing. He became a heroic model for younger writers because he broke with what they considered to be American materialism and convention to commit himself to art.

Anderson's most important book is WINESBURG, OHIO (1919), a collection of 22 stories. The stories explore the lives of inhabitants of Winesburg, a fictional version of Clyde, Ohio, the small farm town where Anderson lived for about 12 years of his early life. These tales made a significant break with the traditional American short story. Instead of emphasizing plot and action, Anderson used a simple, precise, unsentimental style to reveal the frustration, loneliness, and longing in the lives of his characters. These characters are stunted by the narrowness of Midwestern small-town life and by their own limitations.
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Sherwood Anderson’s books

Average rating: 3.83 · 43,756 ratings · 3,745 reviews · 328 distinct works • Similar authors

	Winesburg, Ohio 3.83 avg rating — 33,302 ratings — published 1919 — 816 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 3.85 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 1924 — 16 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 3.95 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 1921 — 16 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 3.70 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 1920 — 141 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 3.68 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1919 — 3 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 3.80 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1957 — 2 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 3.11 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1925 — 43 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 3.53 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2002 — 3 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 2.86 avg rating — 111 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
	Death in the Woods 3.51 avg rating — 89 ratings — 5 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

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“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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March 2016 New School Group Read

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages

26 votes, 12.9%

1987, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 296 pages

24 votes, 11.9%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages

20 votes, 9.9%

1965, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages

20 votes, 9.9%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages

15 votes, 7.4%

1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages

14 votes, 6.9%

1963, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 179 pages

12 votes, 5.9%

1928, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 228 pages

11 votes, 5.4%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 5.4%

1927, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 297 pages

9 votes, 4.5%

1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages

9 votes, 4.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

8 votes, 4.0%

1919, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 240 pages

8 votes, 4.0%

1958, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 567 pages

5 votes, 2.5%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages

4 votes, 2.0%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

2 votes, 1.0%

1956, The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, 448 pages

2 votes, 1.0%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

2 votes, 1.0%

202 total votes

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