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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Do You Hear What I Hear? Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My Father, by Minna Proctor. Viking, 288 pages, $25.95.Minna Proctor's father was a Midwestern intellectual, a professor of music liv...
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings has left the Met, and not a moment too soon. Am I the only New Yorker happy that the tempestuous Dutchman has hit the road?
Whenever the Van Gogh name gets onto ...
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings has left the Met, and not a moment too soon. Am I the only New Yorker happy that the tempestuous Dutchman has hit the road?Whenever the Van Gogh name gets onto a muse...
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Whenever a doctor, nurse or administrator in Georgia's DeKalb Medical Center sends an e-mail, the message detours through a special box in the three-hospital system's computing cluster. The box ana...
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No magic formula for UNSC reform: newly elected General Assembly pres.
NEW YORK - The newly elected U.N. General Assembly president,
Srgjan Kerim, said Thursday that no magical s...
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Myanmar junta extends Suu Kyi's detention for another year: official
YANGON - Defying international appeals, Myanmar's military
government on Friday notified democracy leader Aun...
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