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==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

Anderson was born on September 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio.<ref>"Sherwood Anderson."  ''Biography.com''. http://www.biography.com/people/sherwood-anderson-9184552</ref>  When he was young, his father's (Irwin McClain Anderson's) business failed, his mother (Emma Jane Smith) drank frequently, and he had to leave to help family finances at age fourteen.<ref>"Sherwood Anderson." ''American Literature''. https://americanliterature.com/author/sherwood-anderson/bio-books-stories</ref>  He worked on a farm, in a factory, as a copyright man for advertisement, served in the Spanish-American War, and eventually managed a paint factory in Elyria.<ref>"Sherwood Anderson." ''Online Literature''. http://www.online-literature.com/sherwood-anderson/</ref>  In 1913, when he was the father of three children, he moved to Chicago, where he began to work with imaginative writing.<ref>"Sherwood Anderson."  

Anderson was born on September 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio.<ref>"Sherwood Anderson."  ''Biography.com''. http://www.biography.com/people/sherwood-anderson-9184552</ref>  When he was young, his father's (Irwin McClain Anderson's) business failed, his mother (Emma Jane Smith) drank frequently, and he had to leave to help family finances at age fourteen.<ref>"Sherwood Anderson." ''American Literature''. https://americanliterature.com/author/sherwood-anderson/bio-books-stories</ref>  He worked on a farm, in a factory, as a copyright man for advertisement, served in the Spanish–American War, and eventually managed a paint factory in Elyria.<ref>"Sherwood Anderson." ''Online Literature''. http://www.online-literature.com/sherwood-anderson/</ref>  In 1913, when he was the father of three children, he moved to Chicago, where he began to work with imaginative writing.<ref>"Sherwood Anderson."  

Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45645.Sherwood_Anderson</ref>

Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45645.Sherwood_Anderson</ref>

He joined a literary group with [[Carl Sandburg]] and [[Theodore Dreiser]] in Chicago, where he wrote ''Windy McPherson's Son'' (1916), his first novel, about the son of a man like his father who told tall tales, and a second novel, ''Marching Men'' (1917).<ref>"Anderson, Sherwood." ''Encyclopedia:  Literature and Arts, American Literature Biographies''. http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/sherwood-anderson</ref>  It was after them that he convinced a reluctant publisher to publish his defining work, ''Winesburg, Ohio'' (1919).<ref>"Anderson Biography."  

He joined a literary group with [[Carl Sandburg]] and [[Theodore Dreiser]] in Chicago, where he wrote ''Windy McPherson's Son'' (1916), his first novel, about the son of a man like his father who told tall tales, and a second novel, ''Marching Men'' (1917).<ref>"Anderson, Sherwood." ''Encyclopedia:  Literature and Arts, American Literature Biographies''. http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/sherwood-anderson</ref>  It was after them that he convinced a reluctant publisher to publish his defining work, ''Winesburg, Ohio'' (1919).<ref>"Anderson Biography."  

University of Michigan, student projects. http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/anderson/biography.htm</ref>  His Winesburg, Ohio, the first display of "grotesque" characters, is a collection of short stories, each concerning a different resident of the the fictional town of Winesburg, narrated by the character George Willard, who becomes the subject of the final short story, "departure."<ref>"Winesburg, Ohio:  Sherwood Anderson."  ''Bartleby''. http://www.bartleby.com/156/</ref>  After it came ''Many Marriages'' (1923), a story of lust told by a man of four wives, ''Dark Laughter'' (1925), a novel supporting primitive and pre-government ways, and ''Beyond Desire'' (1932), of the Southern textile mills.<ref>"Anderson, Sherwood."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>

University of Michigan, student projects. http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/anderson/biography.htm</ref>  His Winesburg, Ohio, the first display of "grotesque" characters, is a collection of short stories, each concerning a different resident of the fictional town of Winesburg, narrated by the character George Willard, who becomes the subject of the final short story, "departure."<ref>"Winesburg, Ohio:  Sherwood Anderson."  ''Bartleby''. http://www.bartleby.com/156/</ref>  After it came ''Many Marriages'' (1923), a story of lust told by a man of four wives, ''Dark Laughter'' (1925), a novel supporting primitive and pre-government ways, and ''Beyond Desire'' (1932), of the Southern textile mills.<ref>"Anderson, Sherwood."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>

Dark Laughter, set in New Orleans, earned him enough money to move to Virginia, where he continued to write of the labor conditions in factories there, though his work did not receive as much attention from critics.<ref>"Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)." ''Encyclopedia Virginia''. http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Anderson_Sherwood_1876-1941#start_entry</ref>  He traveled in Europe and later Latin America researching labor conditions and died on March 8, 1941 of peritonitis in Colón, Panama.

Dark Laughter, set in New Orleans, earned him enough money to move to Virginia, where he continued to write of the labor conditions in factories there, though his work did not receive as much attention from critics.<ref>"Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)." ''Encyclopedia Virginia''. http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Anderson_Sherwood_1876-1941#start_entry</ref>  He traveled in Europe and later Latin America researching labor conditions and died on March 8, 1941 of peritonitis in Colón, Panama.

==See Also==

==See also==

*[[John Steinbeck]]

*[[John Steinbeck]]

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==External Links==

==External links==

*[http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Anderson_Sherwood_1876-1941#start_entry Biography] in the Encyclopedia Virginia (with some pro-Virginia bias)

*[http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Anderson_Sherwood_1876-1941#start_entry Biography] in the Encyclopedia Virginia (with some pro-Virginia bias)

*[http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/sherwood-anderson Biography] at encyclopedia.com

*[http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/sherwood-anderson Biography] at encyclopedia.com