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Sherwood Anderson grew up in Ohio, married into a successful
business family, and became the manager of a mail-order house.
When he was nearing middle age, he left his wife, job, and
stability and moved to Chicago to pursue his literary dreams.
He wrote many tales depicting small-town life in the Midwest
and had his first great success with Winesburg, Ohio
(1916), an important work of experimental fiction set in a
small-town environment. Anderson wrote simple, direct sentences,
transferred his point-of-view to outside observers, and portrayed
a slice of life rather than the large panorama of an epic
tale; many subsequent writers, such as Hemingway and Faulkner,
were influenced by his style. Anderson's short-story collections,
in addition to Winesburg, Ohio, include The Triumph
of the Egg (1921), Horses and Men (1923), and
Death in the Woods and Other Stories (1933).
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