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A NEW LOOK AT SHERWOOD ANDERSON

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From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20060116
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Clark University issued the following press release:

Clark University President John Bassett recently published "Sherwood Anderson: An American Career" (Susquehanna University Press 2005). The book is the first critical introduction to this important American writer in almost 30 years.

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) has become one of the less well-known American authors. In the book, Bassett re-evaluates Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and other novels and short stories, revealing their importance to American literature.

Anderson was not just an American writer, Bassett says, but a true Midwestern ...

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