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Sherwood Anderson
American writer (1876–1941)
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| Born | (1876-09-13)September 13, 1876 Camden, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | March 8, 1941(1941-03-08) (aged 64) Colón, Panama |
| Occupation | Author |
| Notable works | Winesburg, Ohio |
| Spouse | Cornelia Pratt Lane (1904–1916) Tennessee Claflin Mitchell (1916–1924) Elizabeth Prall (1924–1932) Eleanor Copenhaver (1933–1941) |
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer.
At the time, he moved to Chicago and was eventually married three additional times. His most enduring work is the short-story sequence Winesburg, Ohio,[1] which launched his career. Throughout the 1920s, Anderson published several short story collections, novels, memoirs, books of essays
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On September 13, 1876 Sherwood Anderson was born to Irwin M. and Emma Smith Anderson in Camden, Ohio. He was their third child. The family was forced to move shortly after Sherwood was born because his father's small business had failed. They finally settled permanently in Clyde, Ohio in 1884. The income was rarely adequate without the added help of the children's income. Due to the difficulties, Anderson's father began drinking heavily and his mother died in 1895. Sherwood was eager to take on odd jobs and earned the name "Jobby". However, his interests caused him to miss school often. He finally left high school before graduating. In 1896, Anderson left Clyde for Chicago where his brother Karl was living. He worked as a manual laborer until enrolling in the army for service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
After the War, he again followed his brother who had taken a job as an artist for the Crowell Publishing Company in Springfield, Ohio. In September of 1900, Anderson attended
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Early Years
Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio, on September 13, 1876, to Irwin McClain Anderson and Emma Jane Smith. He spent most of his childhood in Clyde, a small Ohio town that would later inspire some of his best short stories. He attended Wittenberg Academy (Springfield, Ohio) after serving in the Spanish-American War (1898), and earning the equivalent of a high school diploma in 1900. In 1904 he married Cornelia Lane, with whom he eventually had three children.
After several mostly unsuccessful attempts at a business career, Anderson suffered what historians have since described as a nervous breakdown, likely brought on by marital and financial problems. For several days in November 1912, a disoriented Anderson wandered the streets of Cleveland, and early the next year he decided to leave his wife and children. It was clearly a painful chapter in Anderson’s life, but also one that, according to literary and social critic Irving Howe, he would transform in his memoirs “into a moment of liberation in which he abandoned the sterility of commerce and turned to th