“wettest county in the world,”
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Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer.
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culture · American writer (1876–1941) · writer · poet · short story writer · novelist · journalist · also Sherwood Anderson, Buck Fever, Anderson
Born 13 September 1876 · Died 8 March 1941 · Q233898
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2012· 1 entry
Anderson was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
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2008· 1 entry
Philip Roth published the novel Indignation (novel) set in Anderson's Winesburg in the 1950s, with street names and names of other locales taken from Anderson's book
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1988· 1 entry
The Sherwood Anderson Foundation was created by the author's children and grandchildren
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1971· 1 entry
Anderson's final home in Troutdale, Virginia, known as Ripshin Farm, was designated as a National Historic Landmark
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1941· 1 entry
Died 1941-03-08.
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1935· 1 entry
Was commissioned to go to Franklin County, Virginia to cover a major federal trial of bootleggers and gangsters, in what was called "The Great Moonshine Conspiracy"
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1932· 1 entry
Anderson dedicated his novel Beyond Desire to Copenhaver
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1928· 1 entry
Anderson became involved with Eleanor Gladys Copenhaver (1896–1985), whom he married in 1933
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1924· 2 entries
Sherwood and Elizabeth Prall Anderson moved to New Orleans, where they lived in the historic Pontalba Apartments (540-B St
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Anderson married Elizabeth Norma Prall (1884–1976), a friend of Faulkner's whom he had met in New York before his divorce from Mitchell
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1923· 1 entry
Anderson published Many Marriages; in it he explored the new sexual freedom, a theme which he continued in Dark Laughter and later writing
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1920· 1 entry
Published Poor White, which was rather successful
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1919· 1 entry
After having been estranged from his son for two decades
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1916· 1 entry
As part of a three-book deal with John Lane
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1912· 1 entry
Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer
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1904· 1 entry
Had his only 3 children, and divorced in 1916
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1893· 1 entry
Karl, Sherwood's elder brother, had left Clyde for Chicago
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1884· 1 entry
Irwin could get work only as a hired man to harness manufacturers
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1876· 1 entry
Born 1876-09-13.
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