![]() ![]() ![]() Interestingly, Sherwood Anderson was just such a person.Īnderson was born in Camden, Ohio, in 1876, the third of seven children. One thing is certain: Anderson does exhibit in his book a collection of characters who are frustrated and lonely, characters who are inhibited by convention and twisted by materialism, and characters longing for love and freedom but unable to communicate their needs. Yet whether that book is a novel or a series of short stories, whether it is an exposé of a small town's moral decay or a nostalgic recreation of the small town before it was ruined by industrialization, whether it is sex-obsessed or highly moral - these questions have been debated for the half a century since Winesburg was published in 1919. ![]() Sherwood Anderson is a writer whose reputation is based primarily on a single book, Winesburg, Ohio. ![]()
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