Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in Camden, Ohio and for his first 36 years lived a varied but conventional life. Then he divorced his wife, moved to Chicago and began writing. His best known work, Winesburg, Ohio, was published in 1919. He wrote novels, criticism, plays and poetry, edited two newspapers and associated with many of the major literary figures of his age.