Anderson wrote novels, plays, poetry and countless stories, but it's his story collection, Winesburg, Ohio, that shows him at his best, both as artist and as the portraitist par excellence of small-town America. Townsend brings these points out clearly in this fine biography (the first on Anderson in some 25 years) in which he examines the writings with critical astuteness and the man with sympathetic understanding. A major literary influence nonetheless, he is engrossing to read about.
As a writer Anderson, who died in 1941, had as many failures as successes, and he was eclipsed by the generation that followed him.
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