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Sherwood Anderson

1876 - 1941

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Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer. At the time, he moved to Chicago and was eventually married three additional times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sherwood Anderson is the 991st most popular writer (down from 901st in 2019), the 1,387th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,002nd in 2019) and the 110th most popular American Writer.

Sherwood Anderson was an American writer who was most famous for his Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of short stories that focuses on the lives of the people in a small town.

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Among writers, Sherwood Anderson ranks 991 out of 7,302. Before him are George of Pisidia, George Gissing, Lawrence Durrell, Taha Hussein, Jacques Hébert, and Hartmann von Aue. After him are Joachim du Bellay, Ghassan Kanafani, Vasily Zhukovsky, Branislav Nušić, Thomas Wolfe, and Wilbur Smith.

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Among people born in 1876, Sherwood Anderson ranks 38. Before him are Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kim Koo, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Walter Sydney Adams, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth. After him are Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Ivan Cankar, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Jean Webster, and Robert Michels. Among people deceased in 1941, Sherwood Anderson ranks 36. Before him are Werner Mölders, Kurt Koffka, Henri Lebesgue, Ludwig Quidde, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, and Pál Teleki. After him are Günther Lütjens, Louis Chevrolet, Günther Prien, Annie Jump Cannon, Christian Rakovsky, and Mikhail Kirponos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sherwood Anderson ranks 1,387 out of 20,380. Before him are Lewis A. Swift (1820), Robert Knepper (1959), Bugsy Siegel (1906), Asher Brown Durand (1796), Charlie Munger (1924), and Edward Norton Lorenz (1917). After him are Paul Bremer (1941), Thomas Wolfe (1900), Butch Cassidy (1866), George Davis Snell (1903), Ash Carter (1954), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sherwood Anderson ranks 110. Before him are Horatio Alger (1832), John Updike (1932), John Fante (1909), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Ambrose Bierce (1842), and Raymond Carver (1938). After him are Thomas Wolfe (1900), John Grisham (1955), Nellie Bly (1864), Ed Bradley (1941), Dalton Trumbo (1905), and Eleanor H. Porter (1868).

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