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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Collections

Mid American Chants(1918)Description / Buy at Amazon
Winesburg, Ohio(1919)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Egg and Other Stories(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Triumph of the Egg(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon
Horses and Men(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon
Death in the Woods and Other Stories(1924)Description / Buy at Amazon
Plays: Winesburg and Others(1937)Description / Buy at Amazon
Selected Stories(1945)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Portable Sherwood Anderson(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon
Early Writings(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
Certain Things Last(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

A Story Teller's Story(1924)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook(1926)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tar(1926)Description / Buy at Amazon
Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields (With: Theodore Dreiser,John Dos Passos)(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dreiser(1936)Description / Buy at Amazon
San Francisco at Christmas(1941)Description / Buy at Amazon
Letters of Sherwood Anderson(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (With: Christopher Sergel)(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon
Return to Winesburg(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon
Memoirs(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon
Puzzled America(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Buck Fever Papers(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon
Paul Rosenfeld, Voyager in the Arts(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sherwood Anderson: The Writer at His Craft(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon
Selected Letters(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon
Kit Brandon(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon
Letters to Bab(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Sherwood Anderson Diaries, 1936-1941(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sherwood Anderson's Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
Southern Odyssey(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Akashic Noir Books

San Francisco Noir(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Seattle Noir(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bronx Noir(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brooklyn Noir(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brooklyn Noir 2(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
Chicago Noir(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
Manhattan Noir(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
Miami Noir: The Classics(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
D.C. Noir(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
Baltimore Noir(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
Twin Cities Noir(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
London Noir(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
New Orleans Noir(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Los Angeles Noir(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Wall Street Noir(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Havana Noir(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Detroit Noir(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Toronto Noir(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Las Vegas Noir(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Manhattan Noir 2(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Paris Noir(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Istanbul Noir(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Boston Noir(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Rome Noir(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
San Francisco Noir 2(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Portland Noir(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Delhi Noir(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Phoenix Noir(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Los Angeles Noir 2(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mexico City Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Richmond Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Orange County Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Indian Country Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Moscow Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lone Star Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Philadelphia Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Haiti Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Copenhagen Noir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pittsburgh Noir(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
San Diego Noir(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Barcelona Noir(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cape Cod Noir(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Staten Island Noir(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mumbai Noir(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Long Island Noir(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Venice Noir(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Kingston Noir(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
St. Petersburg Noir(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Kansas City Noir(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Boston Noir 2(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Manila Noir(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Buffalo Noir(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dallas Noir(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Haiti Noir 2(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Singapore Noir(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Prison Noir(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tel Aviv Noir(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tehran Noir(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Belfast Noir(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Helsinki Noir(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Providence Noir(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Chicago Noir: The Classics(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Memphis Noir(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Zagreb Noir(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Marseille Noir(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Beirut Noir(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Stockholm Noir(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brussels Noir(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mississippi Noir(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
St. Louis Noir(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Prague Noir(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
San Juan Noir(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Oakland Noir(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trinidad Noir(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Atlanta Noir(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
New Haven Noir(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Montana Noir(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Buenos Aires Noir(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Montreal Noir(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Berlin Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
São Paulo Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Santa Cruz Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lagos Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Marrakech Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Baghdad Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Vancouver Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sydney Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hong Kong Noir(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Amsterdam Noir(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Houston Noir(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Columbus Noir(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Santa Fe Noir(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Alabama Noir(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Addis Ababa Noir(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tampa Bay Noir(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Belgrade Noir(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
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Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson was born on September 13, 1876 in Camden, Ohio, and was the third of seven kids born to Emma Jane (nee Smith) and ex-Union soldier and harness maker Irwin McLain Anderson.

He never finished high school because he was forced to work at the age of fourteen in order to support his family. He had been a decent student, but his attendance declined after he had started picking up work, and left school for good after about nine months of high school.

Anderson worked as an errand boy, newsboy, waterboy, stable groom, and cow-driver, as well as perhaps printer’s devil, not to mention an assistant to Irwin Anderson, Sign Painter. Additionally he worked assembling bicycles for the Elmore Manufacturing Company.

Even during his teens, his talent for selling was quite evident, and was a talent he’d later draw on in his successful career in advertising. While a newsboy, he was said to have convinced this tired farmer in a saloon to buy two copies of the same exact evening paper. Besides all of the work, his childhood resembled that of other boys his own age.

Anderson was a voracious reader. Despite there only being a few books in the Anderson home, he read widely by borrowing a lot of books from the school library, and the personal libraries of a school superintendent and John Tichenor, a local artist that responded to Sherwood’s interest.

By the year 1912, he was the successful manager of a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio, and the dad of three kids by his first of four wives. That same year, he deserted both his job and his family. In 1913, he moved to Chicago, where he devoted more of his time to his imaginative writing. Sherwood became a heroic model for younger writers because he broke with what the had considered to be convention and American materialism to commit himself to his art.

Anderson and Cornelia Lane married in the year 1904, had his only three kids, and they divorced in 1916. He then married the sculptor Tennessee Claflin Mitchell quickly, whom he then divorced in the year 1924 in Reno, Nevada.

Then in 1924, he married Elizabeth Norma Prall, a friend of Faulkner’s whom he’d met in New York just before his divorce from Mitchell. After several years, this marriage also failed, with them divorcing in the year 1932.

In the year 1928, he became involved with Elanor Gladys Copenhaver, whom he got married to in 1933. They traveled and studied often together, and were both active in the trade union movement. He also became close to Copenhaver’s mom, Laura.

He was an American writer that was mainly known for his short stories, most notably the Winesburg, Ohio collection. The 22 stories explore the lives of different inhabitants of Winesburg, which is a fictional version of Clyde, Ohio, the tiny farm town where Anderson lived for roughly twelve years of his early life.

These tales made a significant break with the traditional American short story. Anderson, rather than emphasize action and plot, used a precise, simple, unsentimental style to reveal the loneliness, frustration, and longing in the lives of each of his characters. These are characters that have been stunted by the narrowness of Midwestern small town life as well as by their own limitations.

That work’s influence on American fiction was a profound one, and its literary voice can be heard in the works of William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and John Steinbeck, as well as others.

He died at the age of 64 on March 8, 1941, having taken ill during a cruise to South America. He’d been feeling abdominal discomfort for a few days, which later was diagnosed as peritonitis. An autopsy revealed that a swallowed toothpick had done some internal damage and resulted in peritonitis.

“Poor White” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 1920. Hugh McVey was born in a small hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was just a miserable place to be born in. With just the exception of a narrow strip of black mud along the river bank, the land for ten miles back from the town, and is called “Mudcat Landing”, in derision by river men, and was almost entirely unproductive and worthless.

The soil: shallow, yellow, and stony, was tilled, during Hugh’s time, by a race of long gaunt men that seemed as exhausted and no-account as the land they lived on. They were chronically discouraged, and the merchant and artisans of the town were in the same state.

The merchants, who ran their own stores, which are poor tumble-down ramshackle affairs, on the credit system, couldn’t get the money to pay for the goods that they handed out over the counters and the artisans, carpenters, the shoemakers, and harness makers, couldn’t get the money for the work they did.

Only the town’s pair of saloons prospered. The saloon keepers sold off their wares for cash and, while the men in the town and the farmers that drove into town felt that without drink life was rather unbearable, cash could always be found for the purpose of getting drunk.

“Many Marriages” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 1923. A Wisconsin man rejects his middle-class life in a controversial novel from 1923 about madness and sexual freedom.

This is John Webster’s story. He’s a prosperous and quiet washing machine manufacturer, getting closer to forty. He lives in Wisconsin with Mary, his wife, and Jane, their seventeen year old daughter. They are the ideal American family in a lot of ways, until a certain madness takes hold of John; which is a madness which might in fact be the sudden dawning of sanity.

John, like so many men and women, has these dreams that he feels compelled to crush so that he can function in his prosperous and quiet life. However down deep inside his body, there is something starting to affect him, it’s this irrepressible feeling of not totally being himself. It comes over him with all of the excitement of springtime, and before long it’ll change him, and his life, forever.

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