_SHERWOOD ANDERSON: A BIBLIOGRAPHY_ [Illustration: _Sherwood Anderson_ Photograph by Edward Steichen, August, 1926] Sherwood Anderson _A Bibliography_ _COMPILED BY_ EUGENE P. SHEEHY & KENNETH A. LOHF [Illustration] _THE TALISMAN PRESS_ _Los Gatos, California_ _1960_ © _1960 by_ THE TALISMAN PRESS Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-53225 _Contents_ PREFACE xiv I. WORKS BY SHERWOOD ANDERSON Individual Works 18 Essays and Stories 43 Introductions and Forewords 44 Letters 45 Dramatizations 46 Contributions to Periodicals 47 Serial Publications Edited by Anderson 66 Smyth County News Contributions 67 II. WRITINGS ABOUT SHERWOOD ANDERSON Books, Parts of Books and Periodical Articles 74 Poems, Parodies, and Miscellaneous Items 104 Reviews 105 INDEX 118 “Gertrude Stein contended that Sherwood Anderson had a genius for using the sentence to convey a direct emotion, this was in the great american tradition, and that really except Sherwood there was no one in America who could write a clear and passionate sentence.” —_The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas._ [Illustration: Manuscript page from _Winesburg, Ohio_. From the Anderson Collection in the Newberry Library, Chicago.] [Illustration: Binding of _Windy McPherson’s Son_, Anderson’s first book. [Item 1]] _Illustrations_ PORTRAIT OF SHERWOOD ANDERSON _Facing title-page_ MANUSCRIPT PAGE FROM _Winesburg, Ohio_ _Page 11_ BINDING OF _Windy McPherson’s Son_ _Facing Opposite_ _Winesburg, Ohio_ TITLE-PAGE, FIRST EDITION _Page 21_ _Preface_ Although an examination of Sherwood Anderson’s biography would reveal various careers—that of laborer, manager of a paint factory, advertising writer, short story writer, novelist, poet, essayist, and newspaper editor—it is as a writer of short stories that he has made his most significant contribution to American letters. His concentration on form rather than plot was a key factor in liberating the American short story from the confining techniques of writers in the genteel tradition who were in vogue when Anderson was writing his first novel, _Windy McPherson’s son_ (1916).