Sherwood Anderson [electronic resource] : a writer in America. Volume 2 / 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:

xix, 466 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sherwood Anderson, an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for his novel Winesburg, Ohio. His realistic and nonformulaic writing style would influence the next generation of authors, most notably Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Walter Rideout's Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is a seminal work that reintroduces us to this important, yet recently neglected, American writer, giving him long overdue attention. This second volume of the monumental two-volume work covers Anderson's life after his move in the mid-1920s to "Ripshin, " his house near Marion, Virginia (where Volume 1 ended.) The second volume covers his 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's friends and family members, or as complete in its vision of the man and the writer. Rideout uncovers much new information about events and people in Anderson's life and provides a new perspective on many of his works. This two-volume biography presents Anderson's many remarkable attributes more clearly than ever before, while astutely placing his life and writings in the broader social, political, and artistic movements of his times. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library AssociationOutstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineWinner, Biography Award, Society of Midland Authors

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface to Volume 2

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Break-Up

2. The Year of the Crash

3. Factories and Speeches

4. A Semipublic Figure

5. Radical

6. Unsettled

7. On, and off, the Road

8. Looking for an Art Form

9. The Year of Kit Brandon

10. Slippage

11. Going toward Pieces

12. A Sort of Rescue

13. Home Town, Memoirs, and Others

14. The Storyteller's Ending

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612765919

9781282765917

1282765914

9780299220235

0299220230

OCLC:

927483632