Windy McPherson's Son (1916), his first novel, uses his father as the prototype for Windy, a drifter and teller of tall tales.Ī second novel, Marching Men (1917), and a collection of prose poems, American Chants (1918), followed. The next year, with his brother Karl, a well-known painter, he went to Chicago and fell in with the "Chicago group"-Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, and others-through whose efforts his earliest work was published. The turning point in Anderson's life came in 1912, when, suffering from nervous exhaustion and amnesia, he suddenly deserted his factory.
But it was while owning and managing a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio, that he began, about 1908, to write stories and novels.
He served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, then began a successful business career in advertising. Sherwood had no formal education after the age of 14, although he did attend Wittenberg College for a short time.Īnderson had a belated writing career. His father was an easygoing, improvident man whose itinerant habits resulted in spotty educations for his children. 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio, the third of seven children.
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