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1916 - Windy McPherson's Son [F]
1917 - Marching Men [F]
1918 - Mid-American Chants [V],
1919 - Winesburg, Ohio [F,SS],
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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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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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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