Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is the definitive biography of this major American writer of novels and short stories, whose work includes the modern classic Winesburg, Ohio. In the first volume of this monumental two-volume work, Walter Rideout chronicles the life of Anderson from his birth and his early business career through his beginnings as a writer and finally to his move in the mid-1920s to “Ripshin,” his house near Marion, Virginia. The second volume will cover Anderson’s return to business pursuits, his extensive travels in the South touring factories, which resulted in his political involvement in labor struggles and several books on the topic, and finally his unexpected death in 1941.

    No other existing Anderson biography, the most recent of which was published nearly twenty years ago, is as thoroughly researched, so extensively based on primary sources and interviews with a range of Anderson friends and family members, or as complete in its vision of the man and the writer. The result is an unparalleled biography—one that locates the private man, while astutely placing his life and writings in a broader social and political context.

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Contents
Acknowledgments	000
Illustrations	000
Introduction	000
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1. A Mid-American Beginning	000
2. Clyde, Ohio 	000
3. Young Man from the Provinces	000
4. The Dream of Success	000
5. New Man in a New World	000
6. The Dream of Failure	000
7. The New York Attraction	000
8. Achievement	000
9. In the Trap	000
10. Experiments in Prose	000
11. To the Old World, and Back	000
12. Arrival and Departure	000
13. A New Life	000
14. Reno	000
15. The Most Cultural Town in America	000
16. Turning Point	000
17. Speaking of the Modern Movement	000
18. Collapse	000
19. The Door of the Trap	000
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Notes	000
Index	000