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Chronological Publication Listing (as at April 21, 2004)

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  • 1916 - Windy McPherson's Son [F]

  • 1917 - Marching Men [F]

  • 1918 - Mid-American Chants [V]
  • ,
  • 1919 - Winesburg, Ohio [F,SS]
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  • 1920 - Poor White [F]

  • 1921 - The Triumph of the Egg [F,SS]

  • 1921 - Horses and Men [F,SS]

  • 1923 - Many Marriages [F]

  • 1924 - A Story Teller's Story
  • 1925 - Dark Laughter [F]

  • 1925 - The Modern Writer,
  • 1926 - Sherwood Anderson's Notebook
  • 1926 - Tar: A Midwest Childhood [F]
  • (fictionalized autobiography)
  • 1927 - A New Testament
  • 1929 - Alice and the Lost Novel [F,SS]

  • 1929 - Hello Towns! [NF]

  • 1929 - Nearer the Grass Roots [NF]

  • 1930 - The American County Fair
  • 1931 - Perhaps Women [NF]

  • 1932 - Beyond Desire [F]

  • 1933 - Death in the Woods [F,SS]

  • 1934 - No Swank
  • 1935 - Puzzled America
  • 1936 - Kit Brandon [F]

  • 1937 - Plays, Winesburg and Others
  • 1940 - Home Town [NF]

  • 1942 - Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs

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    Biography

    Born in Camden, Ohio, on Sept. 13, 1876.
    Lived his early years in Clyde, Ohio.
    Worked as a laborer in 1896-1898 in Chicago
    Served in the Spanish American War
    Attended Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio, in 1900
    Went to Chicago as an advertising writer.

    1904, married Cornelia Lane of Toledo, had two sons and a daughter.
    Had success in a mail-order paint business.
    Suddenly left this business and family and returned to Chicago to write.

    1916 divorced Cornelia and married Tennessee Mitchell and published his first novel.

    1924 divorced Tenessee and married Elizabeth Prall moving to New Orleans.


    1925 bought farmland in Grayson County beside Ripshin Creek, about four miles out of Troutdale, and built a house that he called Ripshin.

    1927 purchased the Marion Publishing Company
    1928 Separated from Elizabeth
    1933 married Eleanor Copenhaver, a Marion native and national YWCA official.

    They were traveling to South America when he died of peritonitis in Colon, Panama, on March 8, 1941.

    Buried in Marion's Round Hill Cemetery and headstone states "Life, Not Death, Is the Great Adventure."


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    Useful Web Sites

    Sherwood Anderson on the Open Directory.


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    Author
    Date of birth: September 13, 1876
    Place of birth: Camden, Ohio
    Date of death: March 18, 1941
    Place of death: Panama
    Genre: American Novelist and Short Story Writerion

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