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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 second trip--which began in late December 1926 and ended i...

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 laconic and colloquial. Sherwood Anderson was born on Se...

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 in Clyde, Ohio. After a variety of jobs in Clyde (his...

Writer Sherwood Anderson learned how to capture authentic American small-town life by training himself to listen and observe. "My own desire is to develop my own sensitiveness to life to the highest possible point," he said in 1924.Through hard work, a keen sense of observation...

In the following essay, Stouck illuminates the tragic-world view offered in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio by highlighting its affinities with the "medieval concept of life as a Dance of Death. "

In his novel Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson selected a typical American small town as the setting. The setting is unusual because one expects such a town to be best suited for a "happily ever after" story; but Anderson successfully utilized the it to expose the loneliness, alienation, and stress that can be associated with small town life.

Reviews Winesburg, Ohio, the collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson.