Sherwood Anderson's Death

The novelist Sherwood Anderson died at the age of 64. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

An American writer of novels, short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction works, he is best known for his 1919 short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio. His other works include Marching Men (1917), Mid-American Chants (1918), and the 1924 memoir, A Story Teller’s Story.

He was born in Camden, Ohio to Irwin and Emma Anderson. He was married four times: to Cornelia Pratt Lane, Tennessee Claflin Mitchell, Elizabeth Prall, and Eleanor Copenhaver.

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

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I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

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I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.