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The Man From Winesburg, Ohio

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870927
Author:Jonathan Yardley

SHERWOOD ANDERSON By Kim Townsend Houghton Mifflin. 370 pp. $22.95

IN HIS DAY Sherwood Anderson was a figure to be reckoned with in American letters, but his day is long since past. To most readers his name conjures up little except confusion-Maxwell Anderson? Robert E. Sherwood?-and his work is little-read outside the classroom. Even there, about all of it that's taught is the one book that remains, indisputably, a classic: Winesburg, Ohio, the collection of interrelated short stories about life in small-town America. As for the rest of his work-Windy McPherson's Son; Tar: A Midwest ...

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