Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson’s 1919 cycle of linked stories about the inhabitants of a small Ohio town, seen largely through the young reporter George Willard, who listens to them and eventually leaves. Anderson called his subjects grotesques, people deformed by a single truth they have clung to, and wrote them in a plain, unliterary voice that broke with the well-made story and shaped a generation of American writing, Hemingway and Faulkner included.
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Simon Winchester
Yes, there is no Winesburg, Ohio. Most people think it is based on Sherwood Anderson's home town in Ohio, called Clyde. It is the most remarkable novel, written in 1919 so I think we are going to see some publicity when it celebrates its centenary. Once again, rather like Stoner, it dropped out of circulation for long periods. It was very modern and groundbreaking for its time, an entirely new form of writing.
Interview · January 2012
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