Sherwood Anderson

(1876 - 1941)

Born in Camden, Ohio, the writer Sherwood Anderson worked as a house painter, copywriter, newsboy, stableboy, and cow driver before devoting his time to novels and short stories—with a brief spell later in life as a newspaper owner. His most famous book is Winesburg, Ohio, though his Ulysses-influenced novel Dark Laughter proved his only bestseller. Anderson’s grave, a black granite cone on a hill in Virginia, is chiseled with the epitaph “Life, not death, is the great adventure.”