Sherwood Anderson: An American Career provides a critical and interpretive overview of an important American writer. It reassesses a prolific career in light of new critical contexts and focuses not only on novels and stories but also on Anderson's many non-fiction works and on unpublished manuscripts. After an opening chapter outlining his career, individual sectors focus on four apprentice novels, only two of them published; and two collections of verse; on the important successes of Winesburg, Ohio and Poor White, on the short stories, which include more of Anderson's best work; on two novels of mid-life crises from the mid-1920s; on several non-fiction books of journalism and essays; on Anderson's explicitly autobiographical--albeit at times fictionally so--prose; and on two final novels from the 1930s.