Word: winesburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sherwood Anderson, grizzled author (Winesburg, Ohio; Dark Laughter) went back to Chicago after an absence of eight years to look at the setting for his new book, Beyond Desire...
This was not the first time that Mr. Dreiser had been accused of plagiarism. George Ade shamed him in 1926; Columnist Franklin P. Adams of the New York World found remarkably similar passages in Mr. Dreiser's works and in Sherwood Anderson's earlier Winesburg, Ohio...
...composition of what may be called the Wendellian Law, Mr. Chase believes that Anderson and Dreiser and all the rest will fifty years hence be as unread as the Congressional Record. Several things are wrong with Anderson, to his mind. He is to obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors...
Forecasting the weather or the stock market seems a relatively easy matter compared with foretelling the effect of a book on the minds of official and unofficial censors of literature here or abroad. According to a recent letter from Paris, Mr. Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio", which has been appearing in a French magazine, has been "suppressed" this in the capital where Mr. James Joyce's "Ulysses" first saw the light...
Divorced. Tennessee Mitchell Anderson by Novelist Sherwood Anderson, 48 (Winesburg, Ohio, The Triumph of the Egg, Many Marriages, Horses and Men). The charge was unjustifiable desertion; at Reno. Divorced. Anne Duffy (Nichols), author of Abie's Irish Rose, from Henry Duffy, actor...