Acad. 59 ('00): 35; 76 ('09): 800; 88 ('15): 234.
Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 350, 374.
Bookm. 32 ('10-11): 360, 640.
Cur. Lit. 29 ('00): 147; 35 ('03): 129 (portrait).
Lamp, 27 ('03): 117, 119 (portrait).
Mentor, 6 ('18): 2 (portrait).
Outlook, 96 ('10): 811.



+Sherwood Anderson+--short-story writer, novelist.

Born at Camden, Ohio, 1876. Of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Father a journeyman
harness-maker. Public school education. At the age of sixteen or
seventeen came to Chicago and worked four or five years as a laborer.
Soldier in the Spanish-American War. Later, in the advertising business.

In 1921, received the prize of $2,000 offered by _The Dial_ to further
the work of the American author considered to be most promising.


SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. The autobiographical element in Mr. Anderson's work is marked and
should never be forgotten in judging his work. The conventional element
is easily discoverable as patched on, particularly in the long books.

2. To realize the qualities that make some critics regard Mr. Anderson as
perhaps our most promising novelist, examples should be noted of the
following qualities which he possesses to a striking degree: (1)