BIBLIOGRAPHY

White, Ray Lewis. Sherwood Anderson: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977, 430 p.

Chronologically organized annotated bibliography of secondary sources.

BIOGRAPHY

Townsend, Kim. Sherwood Anderson. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1987, 370 p.

Biographical and critical study based on the premise that Anderson's “writings continually direct our attention back to the story of his life.”

CRITICISM

Burbank, Rex. Sherwood Anderson. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1964, 159 p.

Introductory critical and biographical study.

Crowley, John W. New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 133 p.

Original essays examining Winesburg, Ohio from various perspectives, including biographical, thematic, and comparative.

Miller, William V. “Sherwood Anderson's ‘Middletown’: A Sociology of the Midwestern Stories.” Old Northwest: A Journal of Regional Life and Letters 15, no. 4 (winter 1991-92): 245-59.

Examines the stories in Winesburg, Ohio for the sociological information they reveal about the American Midwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Papinchak, Robert Allen. Sherwood Anderson: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992, 190 p.

Surveys Anderson's short stories and reprints commentary by and about Anderson's work as a short story writer.

Scruggs, Charles. “The Reluctant Witness: What Jean Toomer Remembered from Winesburg, Ohio.” Studies in American Fiction 28, no. 1 (spring 2000): 77-91.

Argues that in his short-story cycle Cane, Jean Toomer recontextualized “Winesburg's small-town psyche into a southern Gothicism that underlined [Toomer's] own social position in the American scene as an African American.”

Stouck, David. “Anderson's Expressionist Art.” In New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio, edited by John W. Crowley, pp. 27-51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Notes commonalities between Anderson and the early-twentieth-century Expressionist movement in painting, photography, and drama.

Wetzel, Thomas. “‘Beyond Human Understanding’: Confusion and the Call in Winesburg, Ohio.” Midamerica 23 (1996): 11-27.

Contends that a “sense of the indefinite, the concealed truth, and the confused narrative pervades all of Winesburg, Ohio, calling the reader to read indirectly, away from the obvious and confused ‘truth’ of how the stories appear, and to look for different sorts of cues to find the essence of personal truth within Anderson's tales.”

Additional coverage of Anderson's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 30; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1917-1929; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 121; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 61; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 4, 9, 86; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vol. 1; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-Studied Authors and Novelists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Exploring Short Stories; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Novels for Students, Vol. 4; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 1, 46; Short Stories for Students, Vols. 4, 10, 11; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 10, 24; and World Literature Criticism.