Winesburg, Ohio

His Winesburg, Ohio (1919) and The Triumph of the Egg (1921) were collections of short stories that showed villagers suffering from all sorts of phobias and suppressions. Anderson in time wrote several novels, the best being Poor White (1920).

…1900; suppressed until 1912), Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919), Masters’ collection of poetic epitaphs, Spoon River Anthology (1915), and Sandburg’s Chicago Poems (1916) marked the height of the renaissance. Two Chicago literary magazines—Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, and the

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) was his first mature book and made his reputation as an author. Its interrelated short sketches and tales are told by a newspaper reporter-narrator who is as emotionally stunted in some ways as the people he describes. His novels include Many Marriages…