"Paper Pills"
Short story
By: Sherwood Anderson
Date: 1919
Source: Anderson, Sherwood. "The Philosopher." Little Review, June–July, 1916. Reprinted as "Paper Pills," in Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life. New York: The Modern Library, 1919, 18–23.
About the Author: Sherwood Anderson (1875–1941) was born in Ohio. His family was poor and broke apart after his mother's death in 1895. He fought in Cuba in the Spanish-American War, moved several times, and worked at many jobs before he began his writing career. Among other things he was an advertising copywriter, the president of a manufacturing company, and a newspaper publisher and editor. In 1913 he moved to Chicago, where he began writing fiction. His fourth book, a collection of short stories called Winesburg, Ohio, was published in 1919, and established his literary reputation. A novelist,...
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