About Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), was an American author, born in Camden Ohio. He left school at the age of fourteen and worked at various odd jobs until 1898, when he joined the U.S. Army. He served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. After the war Sherwood Anderson returned to Ohio and found employment as the manager of a paint factory. Though highly successful, He found the position monotonous. Sherwood Anderson left it abruptly in 1916 and went to Chicago, where he began to do creative writing. His work won praise from prominent American authors of the day, notably Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, and Ben Hecht. Sherwood Anderson wrote two novels and a volume of verse between 1916 and 1918, but his talent was not widely recognized until the publication (1919) of the collection of short stories Winesburg, Ohio, which deals with the instinctive, if inarticulate, struggle of ordinary people to assert their individuality in the face of standardization imposed by the machine age.
Noted for his poetic realism, psychological insight, and sense of the tragic, Sherwood Anderson helped also to establish a simple, consciously naive short-story style. |
