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His Life born in Camden, Ohio, the third of seven children of Erwin M. and Emma S. Anderson. After Erwins business failed, the family was forced to move frequently, finally settling down at Clyde, Ohio, in 1884. Partly as a result of these misfortunes, young Sherwood found various odd jobs to help his family, which earned him the nickname Jobby. He left school at age 14. moved to Chicago near his brother Karls home and worked as a manual laborer until near the turn of the century. enlisted in the United States Army. He was called up but did not see action in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. After the war, in 1900, he enrolled at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. secured a job as a copywriter in Chicago and became more successful, president of the Anderson Manufacturing Co. In November 1912 suffered a mental breakdown and disappeared for four days. was found wandering around in nearby cornfields. Soon after, he left his wife and three small children to pursue the writers life of creativity. Anderson described the entire episode as escaping from his materialistic existence, which garnered praise from many young writers, who used his courage as an example. Writing In 1916 first novel published Gained wide recognition with the publication in 1919 of Winesburg Ohio In the 1930s, began to write about labor conditions in the South died of peritonitis in Colon, Panama, on March 8, 1941. Death his epitaph in Marion’s Round Hill Cemetery proclaims, as he directed, that “Life, Not Death, Is the Great Adventure.” William Faulkner called him “the father of our generation” Thomas Wolfe: Sherwood Anderson was the only man in America who ever taught me something. Major Works Windy McPherson’s Son 《饶舌的麦克佛逊的儿子》 1916 Winesburg, Ohio 《小城畸人》 1919 Sherwood Andersons Memoirs 1942. Reading Winesburg, Ohio A short story sequence A book of the grotesques Psychological and emotional aspect of American small-town life in the transitional period from the rural to