舍伍德·安德森人生及作品.ppt

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舍伍德·安德森人生及作品

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Life experience Born into a poor family in southern Ohio, the third of seven children in a family The family was forced to move shortly after Sherwood was born because his fathers small business had failed. They finally settled permanently in Clyde, Ohio in 1884. Due to the financial difficulties, Andersons father began drinking heavily. When he was 12 years old, he began to take on odd jobs. He finally left high school before graduating. He worked as a manual laborer until enrolling in the army for service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. When he returned to the states, he completed his high school education. This led to a new job in Chicago as an copywriter and solicitor. During this time, he wrote and published numerous essays on a variety of topics, ranging from business to literature. In the following years, he married, had three children, and became a successful businessman. 36, Anderson stopped his work, left his office and never returned. He is quoted as writing, I was a business man and got sick of it, and went into writing, not to make a success, but to give myself an interest in life He divorced and remarried for four times. On March 8, 1941, on his way to a goodwill tour of South America, Anderson died. He had swallowed a bit of a toothpick at a farewell party, which then penetrating his intestines, causing the peritonitis that killed him. His Literary Career The literary output of Sherwood Anderson is abundant. He published eight novels, four collections of short stories, three books of poems and plays, more than 300 articles, reviews and essays, and three volumes of autobiography. Upon his death in 1941 he left behind eleven hundred manuscripts, including unpublished fiction and journals, and over 12,000 letters written to and by most of the artistic and intellectual leaders of the twentieth century Sherwood Anderson left behind a substantial amount of work, including short fiction, novels, pl

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