In Pennsylvania’s rough-and-tumble coal country, a young idealist tries to organize the miners. Anderson’s second major novel, published in 1917, is dedicated to American workingmen and chronicles their plight in industrial society. Anderson, once manager of a paint factory and later a fierce critic of industrialization, offers a lyrical meditation on prospects for social improvement.
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Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was a novelist and short story writer. He influenced the generation of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck with his story cycle Winesburg, Ohio. In 1912 he resigned as president of a manufacturing company to devote himself to writing. His works include memoirs, essays, biography, and a book of correspondence with Gertrude Stein.