Windy McPherson's Son

by Sherwood Anderson

Overview

This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Windy McPherson's Son' is Anderson's first of seven novels and launched his career as a full length fiction author. Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. He left school at fourteen, and after working various jobs served in the Spanish-American War in 1898. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories and novels. During the twenties, Anderson published Poor White (1920), The Triumph of the Egg (1921), Many Marriages (1923) and Horses and Men (1923). Although considered to be a minor work by the critics, Anderson's most commercial successful novel was Dark Laughter, published in 1925. Anderson died of peritonitis in Panama in 1941, aged 64.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473350106
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	02/16/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	410
File size:	637 KB
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was an American businessman and writer of short stories and novels. Born in Ohio, Anderson was self-educated and became, by his early thirties, a successful salesman and business owner. Within a decade, however, Anderson suffered what was described as a nervous breakdown and fled his seemingly picture-perfect life for the city of Chicago, where he had lived for a time in his twenties. In doing so, he left behind a wife and three children, but embarked upon a writing career that would win him acclaim as one of the finest American writers of the early-twentieth century.

What People are Saying About This

Ben Hecht

"A new writer has risen to sing the Iliad of America, a fellow full of rugged poetry and great redissence -- an artist by the name of Sherwood Anderson."

H. L. Menken

"Written forcefully, earnestly, almost passionately. There's a gusto of a true artist in it. I suspect that we shall hear much more about this Mr. Anderson."