Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio pioneered the short story cycle and exerted a profound influence on Hemingway, Faulkner, and other major American writers. His fiction explored the psychological repression of small-town Midwestern life.
Works
- Winesburg OhioStory collection portraying the inner lives of small-town Midwesterners with intimate detail
- Poor WhiteNovel exploring industrial transformation and moral decline in America's industrial Midwest
- Dark LaughterNovel about a woman torn between propriety and passion in a small Southern town
- Tar: A Midwest ChildhoodMemoir capturing an Ohio boy's coming of age amid family, poverty, and American change
- The Triumph of the EggCollection of interconnected short stories exploring the tension between aspiration and rural American life