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Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson published early versions of "Death in the Woods" as a sketch in A Story- Teller's Story (1924) and as a chapter in his autobiographical Tar: A Midwest Childhood (1926). He worked on "Death in the Woods" periodically for nine years before publishing it in final form as the title story in his 1933 collection Death in the Woods and Other Stories.

According to many critics, Anderson's artistic powers were waning at this point in...

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Sherwood Anderson Biographies (6)

Sherwood Anderson

590 words, approx. 2 pages

The works of the American writer Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) are graced by a psychological complexity absent from earlier American fiction. His stories stress character and mood, and his style is la... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

5,201 words, approx. 18 pages

On the last day of February, 1941, at age 64, Sherwood Anderson set off on a new adventure: he and his fourth wife, Eleanor Copenhaver, sailed on the Santa Lucia on a goodwill mission to South America... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

1,230 words, approx. 5 pages

Sherwood Anderson visited Paris twice during his life; once in 1921 and once in 1926-1927. Each trip lasted only a few months and, of the two, the first was by far the more important. Indeed, the seco... Read more

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8,672 words, approx. 29 pages

Although Sherwood Anderson is not one of the major figures in twentieth-century American literature, he is for several reasons a writer of very considerable significance. At his best in short fictio... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

14,764 words, approx. 50 pages

Sherwood Anderson, now regarded as one of the most important American writers in the short-story form, was born to Irwin McLain Anderson and Emma Smith in Camden, Ohio, on 13 September 1876 and raised... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

9,770 words, approx. 33 pages

Biography EssayAlthough Sherwood Anderson is not one of the major figures in twentieth-century American literature, he is for several reasons a writer of very considerable significance. At his best in... Read more