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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20070408
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SHERWOOD ANDERSON A Writer in America, Vol. 2

WALTER B. RIDEOUT

University of Wisconsin Press. 466 pp. $60.

BY JAMES E. PERSON JR.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON is best known for his classic novel "Winesburg, Ohio," a collection of interconnected, bittersweet tales of village life during the final days of America's agrarian age. A native Ohioan, he spent much of his later life - from the mid-1920s until his death - in Marion, V a. He owned a working farm called Ripshin, where he would retreat to write the novels that followed his greatest achievements: "Winesburg," "Poor ...

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