Sherwood Anderson

Biography

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) is best known for his 1919 work Winesburg, Ohio. His later books include Poor White, Horses and Men, and Dark Laughter. An influential writer in his day, he helped William Faulkner publish his first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, and was an early supporter of Ernest Hemingway.

 

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CRITICISM / Winter 1933

A Man’s Song of Life

By Sherwood Anderson

The charm, the wonder of D. H. Lawrence is just this—that you take him or you leave him. For you he is or he is not. He’s yours or he isn’t. You have a feeling that he never really cared, not about that. I mean that he never really cared...

PROFILES / Winter 1931

J.J. Lankes and His Woodcuts

By Sherwood Anderson

You frame one of his little woodcuts and put it on the wall of your room. It is a group of trees on a windswept hillside, or a winter scene in a barnyard, or a Virginia village street. There it is. Why, you have yourself seen just such...