Sherwood Anderson Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 33 pages of information about the life of Sherwood Anderson.

Sherwood Anderson Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 33 pages of information about the life of Sherwood Anderson.
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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 fiction, this "teller of tales" produced many remarkable individual stories—"I Want to Know Why," "The Egg," "I'm a Fool," "The Man Who Became a Woman," "Death in the Woods," and "Brother Death," to take only the most frequently anthologized pieces-as well as the book of related tales, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), which is generally considered his masterpiece. His effect on the development of the modern American short story as a genre was of great importance, for he rebelled against what he termed the "poison plot"- that is, fiction written according to standardized formulas, readily marketable but unrealistic as portrayals of actual human beings and human experience—in favor of stories which developed their individual...

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