ABOUT SHERWOOD ANDERSON
An American writer of novels, short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction works, he is best known for his 1919 short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio. His other works include Marching Men (1917), Mid-American Chants (1918), and the 1924 memoir, A Story Teller's Story.
He started writing in his home state of Ohio. Later, he relocated to Chicago and befriended such socialist authors as Theodore Dreiser and Carl Sandburg .
His works wove socialist themes into narratives of small-town America.
He was born in Camden, Ohio to Irwin and Emma Anderson. He was married four times: to Cornelia Pratt Lane, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell, Elizabeth Prall, and Eleanor Copenhaver.
Among the crop of writers he influenced were Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
