Blackberry Winter | Literary Precedents
Among the main literary precedents for this story of boyhood initiation are Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer (1876; see separate entry) and more importantly, Huckleberry Finn (1884; see separate entry). The regional realism of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919; see separate entry), may also have provided a useful precedent for Warren. It is also possible that Warren's short story was subtly influenced by the lengthy rite of passage novels of Thomas Wolfe, such as Look Homeward, Angel (1929; see separate entry), although Warren's command of fictional form and...
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