born Sept. 13, 1876, Camden, Ohio, U.S.
died March 8, 1941, Colon, Pan.
U.S. author.
Anderson was irregularly schooled. Having married, he abruptly left his family and business career to become a writer in Chicago. Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a collection of interrelated sketches and tales about the obscure lives of the citizens of a small town, was his first mature book and made his reputation. His short stories were collected in The Triumph of the Egg (1921), Horses and Men (1923), and Death in the Woods (1933). His prose style, based on everyday speech and influenced by the experimental writing of Gertrude Stein , in turn influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner .