Anderson, Sherwood
Anderson, Sherwood( 1876–1941),born in Ohio, at the age of 14 began his restless career, drifting from job to job and serving in the Spanish-American War. For a time he settled in his native state, was married, and became the manager of a paint factory; but he suddenly walked out of the factory, left his family, and made his way to Chicago. There, while writing advertising copy, he met such authors as Carl Sandburg and Floyd Dell, who encouraged him to publish his first book, Windy McPherson's Son (1916), a novel dealing with a boy's life in a drab Iowa town, his rise to success as a manufacturer, and his renunciation of this life to “find truth.” This was followed by another novel, Marching Men (1917), set in the Pennsylvania coal region and showing the failure of a mystical movement to organize the workers in order to free them from oppressive routine. He also published a book of poems, Mid-American Chants (1918),...
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