Sherwood Anderson
Novelist
An American writer of novels, short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction works, he is best known for his 1919 short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio. His other works include Marching Men (1917), Mid-American Chants (1918), and the 1924 memoir, A Story Teller's Story.
He started writing in his home state of Ohio. Later, he relocated to Chicago and befriended such socialist authors as Theodore Dreiser and Carl Sandburg.
His works wove socialist themes into narratives of small-town America.
He was born in Camden, Ohio to Irwin and Emma Anderson. He was married four times: to Cornelia Pratt Lane, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell, Elizabeth Prall, and Eleanor Copenhaver.
Among the crop of writers he influenced were Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.