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Book SynopsisSherwood Anderson was born in 1876 and grew up in a small town in Ohio. He served in the Spanish-American War, worked in advertising 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, published in 1919, that is generally considered his masterpiece. His later novels, including
Poor White, Many Marriages and
Dark Laughter, continued to depict the spiritual poverty of the machine age. He died in 1941.
Trade ReviewWinesburg, Ohio, is no mere period piece but a book that helped redirect the course of American literature * Washington Post *
An often ironic but always clear-eyed and sharp look at the residents of his fictional town... If there were a required reading list for Americans, this one would be near the top * Tampa Tribune *
A landmark in American literature * Calgary Herald (Canada) *
