Fourteen of Sherwood Anderson's best work: The Dumb Man.—I Want to Know Why.—Seeds.—The Other Woman.—The Egg.—Unlighted Lamps.—Senility.—The Man in the Brown Coat.—Brothers.—The Door of the Trap.—The New Englander.—War.—Motherhood.—Out of Nowhere Into Nothing. Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)