Sherwood Anderson, (1876-1941), was an American short-story writer and novelist. That work's influence on American fiction was profound, and its literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell and others. Sherwood Anderson was an American writer who was mainly known for his short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. Stylistically, because of its emphasis on the psychological insights of characters over plot, and plain-spoken prose, Winesburg, Ohio is known as one of the earliest works of Modernist literature. Each of the stories shares a specific character's past and present struggle to overcome the loneliness and isolation that seems to permeate the town. Mostly written from late 1915 to early 1916, with a few stories completed closer to publication, they were '.conceived as complementary parts of a whole, centered in the background of a single community.' The book consists of twenty-two stories, with the first story, 'The Book of the Grotesque', serving as an introduction. It is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio (not to be confused with the actual Winesburg), which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson.

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