Sherwood Anderson

Poor White

Novel exploring industrial transformation and moral decline in America's industrial Midwest

About the author

Sherwood Anderson
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.

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