Anderson, Sherwood - Margaret Ripley Wolfe (essay date winter 1992)

Margaret Ripley Wolfe (essay date winter 1992)

SOURCE: Wolfe, Margaret Ripley. “Sherwood Anderson and the Southern Highlands: A Sense of Place and the Sustenance of Women.” Southern Studies 3, no. 4 (winter 1992): 253-75.

[In the following essay, Wolfe discusses the influence of the women in Anderson's life on his writings.]

Sherwood Anderson hailed from the Buckeye State, and the Midwest claims him as one of its literary giants; Anderson himself, however, ultimately identified with the South and chose to be a Southerner. Although a native of Ohio and an aficionado of Chicago, he spent a critical portion of his later life, some sixteen years, in the Southern Appalachians. Well in advance of his premature demise in 1941, he had also selected a hillside cemetery in southwestern Virginia as his resting place for all eternity.1 During this phase of Anderson's life, he drew strength and support from women, four in particular:...

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