Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was an American short story writer
and novelist. He was raised in the small town of Clyde, Ohio,
served in the Spanish-American War, and managed a paint factory
before abandoning his job and his wife for Chicago and the writer's
life. He was forty before his first novel, Windy McPherson's Son,
was published in the peak of the Chicago Renaissance. Winesburg,
Ohio, his masterpiece, appeared in 1919. His other novels include
Poor White (1920) and Dark Laughter (1925), but his short story
collections were more successful. Two of his best are The Triumph
of the Egg (1921) and Horses and Men (1923). After moving to
Marion, Virginia, in 1927, he owned and edited two newspapers. He
died in Panama during a trip to South America.
Irving Howe (1920-93) was born in New York, and he attended City
College before serving in the U.S. Army in World War II. He was
well-known both for his social activism and his literary and
cultural criticism, and in 1954, he helped found the intellectual
quarterly Dissent, which he edited until his death. Among his
enduring works are Sherwood Anderson, Decline of the New, Politics
of the Novel, and World of Our Fathers.
Dean Koontz was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in
nearby Bedford. He won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition when
he was twenty and has been writing ever since. His books are
published in thirty-eight languages, and he has sold more than 450
million copies to date.
“A work of love, an attempt to break down the walls that divide one
person from another, and also, in its own fashion, a celebration of
small-town life in the lost days of goodwill and
innocence.”—Malcolm Cowley
“He was the father of my whole generation of writers.”—William
Faulkner
"A work of love, an attempt to break down the walls that divide one
person from another, and also, in its own fashion, a celebration of
small-town life in the lost days of goodwill and
innocence."-Malcolm Cowley
"He was the father of my whole generation of writers."-William
Faulkner
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