ANDERSON, SHERWOOD ), American author, was born in Camden, O., Sept. 13 1876. His family was poor and his education meagre. After trying various occupations he went to Chicago, where he worked with an advertising agency. His first novel was Windy McPherson's Son (1916) . In 1921 he was awarded the Dial prize of $2,000. He has_since published several novels, Marching Men (1917), Poor White (1920), Many Mar riages (1922) and Dark Laughter (192 5) ; short story collections, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), The Triumph of the Egg (1921) and Horses and Men (1923) ; a book of Whitmanesque verse, Mid American Chants (1918) ; the autobiographical Tar—A Mid West Childhood (1926) and A Story Teller's Story (1924) ; and Sherwood Anderson's Notebook (1926). After devoting himself for a number of years solely to creative writing he bought several country papers in Virginia and became an editor.
Mr. Anderson's fiction, psychological in interest and sombre in tone, is striking as an attempt to express the evolution and inarticulate longings of industrial America.
biographical and critical articles by Paul Rosen feld and R. M. Lovett in the Dial, Jan. 1922, and "Sherwood Anderson, Corn-Fed Mystic, Historian of the Middle Age of Man," in Harry Hansen's Mid-West Portraits (1923).