Sherwood Anderson (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Sherwood Anderson published seven novels, collections of essays, memoirs, poetry, and dramatizations of Winesburg, Ohio, as well as other stories. He was a prolific article writer and for a time owned and edited both the Republican and Democratic newspapers in Marion, Virginia. In 1921, he received a two-thousand-dollar literary prize from The Dial magazine. While employed as a copywriter, Anderson wrote many successful advertisements.

Achievements

Sherwood Anderson, a protomodernist, is generally accepted as an innovator in...

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