Sherwood Anderson, c. 1933 
(B. 1876, D. 1941)

Although Sherwood Anderson was not a published author until he was 40, he was a master of coloquial speech. His writing, largely built on frustration and criticism of group narrow-mindedness, had a huge impact during his time on much more popular writers that most of us have head of, if not already read. In fact, both William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway owe their publication to the instrumental efforts of Sherwood Anderson.

Anderson is buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. His gravestone reads: “Life not death is the greatest adventure.”