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Sherwood Anderson's first writings were essays, sketches, and stories that he wrote in his spare time in 1900. At the time he owned a roofing supply company. He began writing novels in 1910 but in 1912 he suffered a nervous breakdown and slowly transitioned into a rebellious writer. Other rebellious writers of the time included authors such as Carl Sandburg and Ben Hecht. He published his first works known as the Winesburg Tales in 1916. They were published in several literary magazines. His first published novel, Windy McPherson's Son, which he wrote in 1916, was an autobiographical work. The character in the story was based off Anderson's father in real life, the character is described as a "drifter and a teller of tall tales." He worried that it was not "loose and disorderly enough" to reflect American life. Anderson often said that his writing had to be crude in order to truly reflect American life. In 1917, he wrote and published his second book, Marching Men and in......

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