Born in 1876, Sherwood Anderson grew up in a small town in Ohio-an
experience that was the basis of his greatest achievements as a
writer. He served in the Spanish-American War, worked as an
advertising man, and managed an Ohio paint factory before
abandoning both job and family to embark on a literary career in
Chicago. His first novel, Windy McPherson's Son, was published in
1916; his second, Marching Men, a characteristic study of the
individual in conflict with industrial society, appeared in 1917.
But it is Winesburg, Ohio (1919), with its disillusioned view of
small-town lives, that is generally considered his masterpiece.
Later novels-Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark
Laughter-continued to depict the spiritual poverty of the machine
age. Anderson died in 1941.
Malcolm Cowley(1898-1989) a leadiing literary figure of his time,
wrote numerous books of literary criticism, essays, and poetry.
"When he calls himself a 'poor scribbler' don't believe him. He is
not a poor scribbler . . . he is a very great writer."--Ernest
Hemingway
"Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night
in a steady crescendo of emotion."--Hart Crane
"As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else,
unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities
in Winesburg, Ohio. . . . These people live and breathe: they are
beautiful."--E. M. Forster
"Winesburg, Ohio is an extraordinarily good book. But it is not
fiction. It is poetry."--Rebecca West
"When he calls himself a 'poor scribbler' don't believe him. He is
not a poor scribbler . . . he is a very great writer."--Ernest
Hemingway
"Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night
in a steady crescendo of emotion."--Hart Crane
"As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else,
unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities
in Winesburg, Ohio. . . . These people live and breathe: they are
beautiful."--E. M. Forster
"Winesburg, Ohio is an extraordinarily good book. But it is not
fiction. It is poetry."--Rebecca West
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