| Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America, Volume 1 Contributor(s): Rideout, Walter B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 029921530X ISBN-13: 9780299215309 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: "Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America" is the definitive biography of this major American writer of novels and short stories, whose work includes the modern classic "Winesburg, Ohio." In the first volume of this monumental two-volume work, Walter Rideout chronicles the life of Anderson from his birth and his early business career through his beginnings as a writer and finally to his move in the mid-1920s to "Ripshin," his house near Marion, Virginia. The second volume will cover Anderson's return to business pursuits, his extensive travels in the South touring factories, which resulted in his political involvement in labor struggles and several books on the topic, and finally his unexpected death in 1941. No other existing Anderson biography, the most recent of which was published nearly twenty years ago, is as thoroughly researched, so extensively based on primary sources and interviews with a range of Anderson friends and family members, or as complete in its vision of the man and the writer. The result is an unparalleled biography--one that locates the private man, while astutely placing his life and writings in a broader social and political context. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005011164 |
| Physical Information: 2.03" H x 6.38" W x 9.32" (2.77 lbs) 852 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: After the deaths of her father and father-in-law, the author discovered an unlikely place for healing and transformation in a wetland in south-eastern Wisconsin. Here, she presents a story of refuge and renewal refracted through the lens of life within wetlands - among the most productive, yet most endangered, ecosystems in the world. |
