Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson was born in 1876 in Camden, Ohio, and grew up in the small town of Clyde, which served as the model for Winesburg. After serving in the Spanish-American War, he worked in advertising and managed a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio, before suffering a nervous breakdown in 1912 that led him to abandon business and dedicate himself to writing. Moving to Chicago, he became part of the literary renaissance that included Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, and Floyd Dell. Winesburg, Ohio, published in 1919, established him as a major American writer and a pioneer of modernist short fiction. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Winesburg, Ohio.