Sherwood Anderson (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Sherwood Anderson began writing during the period from 1907 to 1912, when he was manager of a paint business in Elyria, Ohio. He had settled there in 1907 with his wife and growing family, apparently eager for success. The child of an impoverished harness maker whose skills had been made obsolete by advancing technology, Anderson had lived a life of hardship, meager education, and tireless moving about in search of employment. After a few years of writing advertising in Chicago and then marriage to Cornelia Lane, who was from a solid, middle-class family in...
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