Category: Winesburg Ohio

Sherwood Andersons book of short stories begins with an old writer thinking of the people he has known throughout his life. Particularly ingrained in his mind are the grotesques of Winesburg, the small fictional town in Ohio that serves as the setting for each story. The writer is George Willard, who as a young man…

In the autumn of 1915, while living in a bohemian boardinghouse on Chicagos Near North Side, Sherwood Anderson began work on a collection of tales describing the tortured lives of the inhabitants of Winesburg, a fictional Ohio town, in the 1890s. Drawing on his own experience growing up in the agricultural hamlet of Clyde, Ohio,…

Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of loosely interconnected short stories that focus on the troubled inhabitants of a small midwestern town. Although each of the 25 stories focuses on a different character, the novels central plot arc is protagonist George Willards gradual coming-of-age. In The Book of the Grotesque, an elderly writer in town has…