Sherwood Anderson

...of The Lost Generation, a term coined by Gertrude Stein. Together they hobnobbed with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and John Steinbeck, among others. They drank. They ate. They talked big knowing talks. They...

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The novel goes back and forth to the events leading up to the shootout, and dogged Anderson, disillusioned and near desperate, ruminating on his failed literary life, recalling his friendships with William Faulkner and Gertrude Stein. He...

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...Crane, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Pound himself, and William Butler Yeats. Other notable contributors included Sherwood Anderson, Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Malcolm Cowley, Marcel Duchamp, Ford Madox Ford, Emma Goldman, Vachel...

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In 1939 Yeats and Ford Madox Ford died; in 1940 Scott Fitzgerald died; in 1941 Sherwood Anderson and James Joyce died; in 1946 Gertrude Stein died; and the following year in 1947, Max Perkins, Hemingway's long time editor and friend, died.

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...arrived. Together they hosted a salon that attracted expatriate American writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Paul Bowles, Thornton Wilder and Sherwood Anderson, and avant-garde painters, including Picasso , Matisse and Braque . Acting as...

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(A few lines later, recalling the risks and losses of the war, he adds: "I thought of Miss Stein and Sherwood Anderson and egotism and mental laziness versus discipline and I thought 'who is calling who a lost generation?'") Broadly,...

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...poetry consistently, including Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson. In actuality, Anderson considered his work to be short fictions-in the current term, "flash fiction." The distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry is at times...

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...Hemingway - the latter helped with the publication of The Making of Americans. They then make friends with a coterie of Russian artists, but it is no real movement. Later, Gertrude gives a lecture at Oxford University. Alice then mentions more...

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...in his public introduction to Stein's 1922 publication of Geography and Plays wrote: In a private letter to his brother Karl, Anderson said, As for Stein, I do not think her too important. I do think she had an important thing to do,...

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