Sherwood Anderson [electronic resource] : a writer in America. Volume 1 / Walter B. Rideout ; introduction by Charles E. Modlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rideout, Walter B. (Walter Bates)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.

Anderson, Sherwood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (852 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Winner, Biography Award, Society of Midland Authors

Contents:

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

""Notes""""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612270062

9780299215330

0299215334

9781282270060

1282270060

OCLC:

646798632