Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters: For Eleanor, a Letter a Day by Sherwood Anderson; Editor-Ray Lewis White - 1991-12-01

Louisiana State University Press, 1991-12-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Paperback / softback. New. In 1927, tired of the literary life of New York City, New Orleans, and Chicago, a famous but aging American writer named Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- author of Winesburg, Ohio (1919) and other short stories in which he virtually invented the modern American short story -- moved to rural Southwest Virginia to write for and edit two small-town weekly newspapers that he owned, the Marion Democrat and the Smyth County News. Living again among the small-town figures with whom he was usually most content, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolf, and indeed an entire generation of the greatest American writers -- worked for several years at making his newspaper nationally famous while struggling to come to terms with a life-threatening psychological depression and a failing third marriage. Both of Anderson's midlife problems were complicated when he met Eleanor Copenhaver, lovely young daughter in one of the prominent first families of Marion and a career social worker for the YWCA.… Read More

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