Sherwood Anderson is the author of 26 works, including Winesburg, Ohio and seven novels that include Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark Laughter. In 1926, H.L. Mencken called him "America's most distinctive novelist." Anderson was also a poet, playwright, newspaper editor, and a political journalist.

 

As a writer, Anderson is obscured by the generation of writers that followed him, by Hemingway and Faulkner especially, both of whom he helped to get started.

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