Sherwood Anderson

***Sherwood Anderson*** (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American writer. He is most famous for his book _Winesburg, Ohio_. Anderson is said to have had a big influence on some of the most famous American writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck.

## Personal Life

Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio. He was the third of seven children. Anderson’s father, Erwin Anderson, had a business which failed. After this, the Anderson family had to move house often, finally settling in Clyde, Ohio. Erwin Anderson began drinking heavily and died in 1895. Sherwood Anderson took a number of jobs to help support his family and he left school at the age of 14.

Anderson moved to Chicago. He worked there until just before 1900, when he signed up for the United States Army. In 1900, Anderson went to Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He eventually went back to Chicago to take up a writing job.

In 1904, he married Cornelia Lane. Lane came from a rich family in Ohio. They lived in Cleveland, Ohio and then in Elyria, Ohio. Anderson had three children and ran a number of businesses.

In November 1912, Anderson had a mental breakdown. He left his wife and three children and decided to become a creative writer. He moved back to Chicago, but took a job in advertising and publishing. Anderson divorced Cornelia in 1916 and got married to Tennessee Mitchell.

In 1916, Anderson’s first book, _Windy McPherson’s Son_, was released. In 1919, Anderson’s most famous book, _Winesburg, Ohio_, was released. _Winesburg, Ohio_ was a collection of short stories about life in a town in Ohio.

In 1922, Anderson divorced Tennessee Mitchell. He got married again in 1924, to Elizabeth Prall. This marriage did not last either. Anderson married again in the late 1920s – this time to Eleanor Copenhaver.

Anderson died in Panama on the 8th March, 1941, at the age of 64. He was buried in Marion, Virginia. The writing on his gravestone reads "Life, Not Death, is the Great Adventure."

## Works

- _Windy McPherson's Son_, (1916, novel)
- _Marching Men_, (1917, novel)
- _Winesburg, Ohio_, (1919, novel)
- _Poor White_, (1920, novel)
- _Triumph of the Egg_, (1921, short stories)
- _Many Marriages_, (1923, novel)
- _Horses and Men_, (1923, short stories)
- _A Story-Teller's Story_, (1924, semi-autobiographical novel)
- _Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs_, (1924, memoirs)
- _An Exhibition of Paintings By Alfred H. Maurer_, (1924, non-fiction)
- _Dark Laughter_, (1925, novel)
- _A Meeting South_, (1925, novel)
- _Modern Writer_, (1925, non-fiction)
- _Tar: A Midwest Childhood_, (1926, semi-autobiographical novel)
- _Sherwood Anderson's Notebook_, (1926, memoirs)
- _Hello Towns_, (1929, short stories)
- _Alice: The Lost Novel_, (1929, novel)
- _Onto Being Published_, (1930, non-fiction)
- _Beyond Desire_, (1932, novel)
- _Death in the Woods_, (1933, essays)
- _Puzzled America_, (1935, essays)
- _Kit Brandon_, (1936, novel)
- _Dreiser: A Biography_, (1936, non-fiction)
- _Winesburg and Others_, (1937, play)
- _Home Town_, (1940, novel)
- _San Francisco at Christmas_, (1940, memoirs)
- _Lives of Animals_, (1966, novel)
- _Return to Winesburg, Ohio_, (1967, essays)
- _The Memoirs of Sherwood Anderson_, (1968, memoirs)
- _No Swank_, (1970, novel)
- _Perhaps Women_, (1970, novel)
- _The Buck Fever Papers_, (1971, essays)
- _Ten Short Plays_, (1972, plays)
- _Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein: Correspondence and Personal Essays_, (1972, essays)
- _Nearer the Grass Roots_, (1976, novel)
- _The Writer at His Craft_, (1978, non-fiction)
- _Paul Rosenfeld: Voyager in the Arts_, (1978, nonfiction)
- _The Teller's Tale_, (1982, novel)
- _Selected Letters: 1916 – 1933_, (1984, letters)
- _Writer's Diary: 1936–1941_, (1987, memoir)
- _Early Writings of Sherwood Anderson_, (1989, short stories)
- _Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson_, (1990, letters)
- _The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson_, (1995, short stories)
- _Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings By Sherwood Anderson_, (1998, short stories)

## Other websites

- http://www.gradesaver.com/author/sherwood-anderson/

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Sherwood Anderson
- **image**: Sherwood Anderson (1933).jpg
- **caption**: Anderson in 1933
- **birth place**: Camden, Ohio, United States
- **death place**: Panama
- **occupation**: Author
- **notableworks**: _Winesburg, Ohio_