Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson was born in 1876 in Camden, Ohio, and left school at fourteen. Having become a paint manufacturer in Elyria, he left his office in November 1912 and wandered for four days before being found, dazed, in Cleveland; he would later say he had wanted to break with business in order to write. Settled in Chicago, he helped Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner publish their first books, before both of them mocked him. He died in 1941 at Colón, Panama, during a cruise to South America, of peritonitis caused by a swallowed toothpick.

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• Short storiesWinesburg, OhioSherwood Anderson · 1919LiteraturePublic domain