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When Sherwood Anderson walked out of his job as manager of a paint factory he wanted to write books. His ambition was accomplished but not satisfied years ago. U. S. readers and critics rank him high for such Americana as Winesburg, Ohio, A Story Teller's Story, a few others. If there were a U. S. literary pantheon he would be in it. But Author Anderson, like many a lesser man, goes on talking when he is no longer on the air. His latest book, characteristically entitled No Swank, is a collection of 17 articles, some of which have...
...which has been taught to regard him as one of its few genuine home-grown authors. Three years ago Anderson settled -in Marion, Va., bought two country papers, one Democratic, one Republican, edits them impartially, contentedly. Thrice married, he has three children. Other books: Windy McPherson's Son, Winesburg, Ohio, Poor White, Triumph of the Egg, Horses and Men, A Story Teller's Story...
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...