Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
Auteur van Winesburg, Ohio
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Sherwood Anderson was born on September 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio, and grew up in nearby Clyde. In 1898 he joined the U.S. Army and served in the Spanish-American War. In 1900 he enrolled in the Wittenberg Academy. The following year he moved to Chicago where he began a successful business career toon meer in advertising. Despite his business success, in 1912 Anderson walked away to pursue writing full time. His first novel was Windy McPherson's Son, published in 1916, and his second was Marching Men, published in 1917. The phenomenally successful Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of short stories about fictionalized characters in a small midwestern town, followed in 1919. Anderson wrote novels including The Triumph of the Egg, Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark Laughter, but it was his short stories that made him famous. Through his short stories he revolutionized short fiction and altered the direction of the modern short story. He is credited with influencing such writers as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Anderson died in March, 1941, of peritonitis suffered during a trip to South America. The epitaph he wrote for himself proclaims, "Life, not death, is the great adventure." (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods /… (2012) 134 exemplaren
Delphi Collected Works of Sherwood Anderson (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Ten Book 3) (2019) 7 exemplaren
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook Containing Articles Written During the Author's Life As a Story Teller, and… (1926) 7 exemplaren
Hands [short story] 6 exemplaren
A new testament 4 exemplaren
Return to Winesburg; selections from four years of writing for a country newspaper (1967) 4 exemplaren
Departure 3 exemplaren
Godliness 3 exemplaren
Paper Pills 3 exemplaren
The Book of the Grotesque 3 exemplaren
Vader is de beste — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
The Man Who Became a Woman 3 exemplaren
A Story Teller's Story a Critical Text 3 exemplaren
The Strength of God 2 exemplaren
The Teacher 2 exemplaren
El cuento norteamericano contemporáneo 2 exemplaren
Winesburg, Ohio und andere Erzählungen 2 exemplaren
SHERWOOD ANDERSON PREMIUM COLLECTION 8 BOOKS (5 Novels 3 Short Story Collections) (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book… (2014) 2 exemplaren
Racconti dell'Ohio 2 exemplaren
Mother (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplaren
Nobody Knows (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplaren
Respectability (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplaren
The Untold Lie (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplaren
Death (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplaren
Sophistication (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplaren
La canción de las máquinas: Y otros artículos (Barlin Paisaje) (Spanish Edition) (2018) 2 exemplaren
Sherwood Anderson - A Short Story Collection 2 exemplaren
The Philosopher 2 exemplaren
Unlighted Lamps 2 exemplaren
Loneliness 2 exemplaren
Seeds 2 exemplaren
Nice Girl 2 exemplaren
Mahavaikitud vale 2 exemplaren
Novelle americane moderne 2 exemplaren
Tandy (in Winesburg, Ohio) 2 exemplaren
Solitudine (in Winesburg, Ohio) 2 exemplaren
Anderson Sherwood 1 exemplaar
Il meglio 5 1 exemplaar
Μαῦρο γέλιο: Μυθιστόρημα 1 exemplaar
Brothers 1 exemplaar
Wines burg Ohio (Alma Classics) 1 exemplaar
The Other Woman 1 exemplaar
Il libro delle caricature (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
El triunfo del huevo : un libro de impresiones sobre la vida estadounidense en cuentos y poemas (2019) 1 exemplaar
Selected Short Stories Of Sherwood Anderson 1 exemplaar
Ubogi belec 1 exemplaar
Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson 1 exemplaar
Main Street Tales (Little Blue Book #865) 1 exemplaar
Rare Sherwood Anderson / Tar A Midwest Childhood Signed 1926 [Hardcover] Anderson, Sherwood 1 exemplaar
Risa negra 1 exemplaar
windy McPherson son 1 exemplaar
WINESBURGO, OHIO. 1 exemplaar
Winesburg in Ohio 1 exemplaar
Sint un natarau 1 exemplaar
Winesburg,Ohi (Illustrated) 1 exemplaar
Drink 1 exemplaar
An Awakening 1 exemplaar
Thoughts 1 exemplaar
The Man of Ideas 1 exemplaar
The Thinker 1 exemplaar
Queer 1 exemplaar
Mørk latter 1 exemplaar
Brother Death (Selected Short Stories) 1 exemplaar
Mani (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Palline di carta (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
The Man's Story [short story] 1 exemplaar
Der Erzähler erzählt sein Leben. Übertragen von Karl Lerbs. Deutsche EA. Fraktura, Lesebändchen… (1927) 1 exemplaar
Un risveglio (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
"Bizzarro" (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
6 Mid-American Chants by Sherwood Anderson, 11 Midwest Photographs by Art Sinsabaugh (1964) 1 exemplaar
Sophistication {short story} 1 exemplaar
La menzogna non detta (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Ebbrezza (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
La morte (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Hands, Winesburg, Ohio 1 exemplaar
Complicazione (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Smrt v lese 1 exemplaar
Partenza (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Kematian di Dalam Hutan 1 exemplaar
A complete Novel- Stories and other writings 1 exemplaar
A Meeting South 1 exemplaar
The Contract 1 exemplaar
Kćeri 1 exemplaar
The Sad Horn Blowers 1 exemplaar
Dignità (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Out of Nowhere into Nothing 1 exemplaar
Madre (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Il filosofo (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Nessuno lo sa (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
L'eletto del Signore (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
A Man of Ideas (Selected Short Stories) 1 exemplaar
Un uomo pieno di idee (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Avventura (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Il pensieroso (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
צחוק אפל 1 exemplaar
Poor White and Other Works by Sherwood Anderson (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) 1 exemplaar
La forza di Dio (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
La maestra (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplaar
Santidad y otros cuentos de Winesburgo 1 exemplaar
Městečko v ohiu 1 exemplaar
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Cowboy Dances. A Collection of Western Square Dances. With a foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Appendix Cowboy Dance Tunes… (1939) — Voorwoord — 30 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Anderson, Sherwood Berton
- Geboortedatum
- 1876
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1941
- Graflocatie
- Round Hill Cemetery, Marion, Virginia, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- VS
- Geboorteplaats
- Camden, Ohio, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Colón, Panama
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- peritonitis occasioned by a swallowed toothpick
- Woonplaatsen
- Clyde, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Elyria, Ohio, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Troutdale, Virginia, USA (toon alle 7)
Camden, Ohio, USA (birth) - Opleiding
- Wittenberg University
- Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
copywriter
editor (toon alle 9)
salesman
lecturer
reporter - Organisaties
- United Factories Co. (president)
Anderson Manufacturing Co. (president)
United States Army - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1937)
Dial Award (1921)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2012)
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WINESBURG, OHIO Group Read beginning in March in 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (maart 2022)
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The bad: first thing, the ridiculous setting. It feels like 90% of what's referred to as "great American" works or on those top 100 lists is set in some rural, pastoral town which feels like a complete fantasy. I cannot believe for one second this town exists. I feel kind of stupid saying this, given he was born and presumably grew up in such a town, but what's shown is not a town. He describes random houses and random people. Nobody wants for money, even if they're poor. There is no town past a few houses where characters live. Characters that should exist don't. There are no consequences. Nothing makes sense. This is what killed the book for me. I'm so sick of these utopian, rural towns, the conception of which is incredibly reactionary. Maybe this is unfair on the book itself but ugh. Nobody in the town has a life, except for what's described in each person's story. It's frustrating. The artificiality of the book shone through - ostensibly it's a reflection of reality yet it feels like fantasy.
Every character's story is a sort of melancholy. The first chapter warns us that every character is going to be a "grotesque," but it's ridiculous. Everybody has some sort of obvious but ridiculous and unlikely problem and ridiculous thoughts. They don't do anything except for the one event described by the story. A sad thing happens but although it defines their life for us the events don't change how they think or how they live. Apparently nobody can get over anything. Everything is static, even when it describes an incredibly long period of time. Nobody reacts to what happens.
There feels a strong divide between the description of what people do and how they think/what they are/what's going on. One character is described as having serious trouble speaking and apparently having serious, debilitating delusions yet he has a whole load of friends and a wife. It doesn't match at all. One character apparently goes through being walked home by a dude for 2 years (!) with nothing else happening - not even inviting him in to her house - and then suddenly decides she doesn't like it. Ok sure whatever. I can't think of many specific examples, just a general pervasive sense that the characters aren't real and what we're being told once doesn't fit what we're told later.
What made me give up on the book is incredibly minor but was the straw that broke the camel's back. A minor character is called "Sugars McNutts." The rest of the book is deadly serious. Come on.
I think my strong dislike of this book is influenced by how I'm feeling right now and is pretty over the top but my frustrations are real and all too typical of this sort of book. One star is maybe too little but what I liked about it was constantly overshadowed by the problems. It quickly felt like a chore to read. I didn't feel like I was reading about humans or anything that happens in real life.
later note: As I said I think my review is probably unfair. It's at least a little better than I make out, it just hit a lot of my pet peeves… (meer)