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Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and ...
The Triumph of the Egg. The Triumph of the Egg (full title: The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems) is a 1921 short story collection by the American author Sherwood Anderson. [1] It was Anderson's third book to be published by B.W. Huebsch and his second collection after the successful short story ...
Plot. Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Iowa, with drunkard of a father who constantly embarrasses him. Eventually, after his mother's death and an episode with a middle-aged ...
This is a list of programs broadcast by MSNBC. MSNBC is an American news cable and satellite television network that provides news coverage and political commentary from NBC News on current events. The network, which was founded as a partnership between Microsoft and General Electric 's NBC unit (which is now the Comcast -owned NBCUniversal ...
Marching Men is a 1917 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson. Published by John Lane, the novel is Anderson's second book; the first being the 1916 novel Windy McPherson's Son. Marching Men is the story of Norman "Beaut" McGregor, a young man discontented with the powerlessness and lack of personal ambition among the miners of his hometown ...
James Dean, Natalie Wood and Eddie Albert starred in a live TV play on the series General Electric Theater, hosted by Ronald Reagan. In 1977, Noel Black made a 38-minute movie based on Anderson's story, keeping its title, i.e., "I'm a Fool". In this movie, Ron Howard starred as the groom and Amy Irving played the role of the pretty girl Miss ...
Death in the Woods. First edition (publ. Liveright) Death in the Woods is a 1933 short story collection by Sherwood Anderson. It was the last of Anderson's books to be published by Boni & Liveright before the firm's financial collapse. [1][2] Most of the stories in the collection were previously published either in magazines ("Why They Got ...
Alice and the Lost Novel. Alice and The Lost Novel is a 1929 collection of two essays by American author Sherwood Anderson. The book was first published in a limited edition of 530 copies by London publisher Elkin Mathews and Marrot. It consists of two autobiographical pieces.