You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself.

Partly as a result of these misfortunes young Sherwood found various odd jobs to help his family which earned him the nickname "Jobby. Sherwood Anderson was buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion Virginia. " He left school at age 14.

His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg Ohio. Writers he has influenced include Ernest Hemingway Jason Kim Alex Deutsch William Faulkner John Steinbeck and Thomas Wolfe. Sherwood Anderson (April 1 2013 – April 2 2013) was an American novelist and short story writer.