HOME TOWNSherwood AndersonAlliance ($2.50).
Once upon a time Sherwood Anderson, manager of a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio, was dictating a letter to his secretary. Suddenly he said, "I am walking in the bed of a river," put on his hat, strode out of the paint factory, out of the town forever. He got an advertising job in Chicago, met Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, began writing stories himself. After two poor novels, Anderson brought out a remarkable sketch of small-town life, Winesburg, Ohio (1919).
In those days small-town life was a popular literary theme, with two schools of approach. One stemmed...
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