Set against the backdrop of a fictional 1890s town, Sherwood An-derson's Winesburg, Ohio depicts the not-so-simple lives of its resi-dents. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the firstbook edition, published in 1919, and includes Harald Tbksvig's orig-inal map of the fictional Winesburg. Ample annotation is providedthroughout.

Preface

Note on the Text

The Text of Winesburg, Ohio

 Map of Winesburg, Ohio

 The Tales and the Persons

Backgrounds and Contexts

 LETTERS

To Waldo Frank (November 14, 1916)

To Waldo Frank (December 14, 1916)

To Arthur H. Smith (June 6, 1932)

To Arthur Barton (November 26, 1932)

To George Freitag (August 27, 1938)

 MEMOIRS

Sherwood Anderson·[The Writing of Winesburg]·The Finding

 REVIEWS

Heywood Broun·From the New York Tribune(May 31, 1919)

Burton Rascoe·From the Chicago Tribune (June 7, 1919)

Maxwell Anderson·A Country Town (June 25, 1919)

H. L. Mencken·[A Book of Uncommon Merit](June 28,1919)

William Lyon Phelps·From The New York Times Book Review(June 29, 1919)

Anonymous·Sordid Tales (July 19, 1919)

John Nicholas Beffel·Small Towns and Broken Lives(September 21, 1919)

William Faulkner·From the Dallas Morning News(April 26, 1925)

Criticism

Walter B. Rideout·The Simplicity of Winesburg, Ohio

Sally Adair Rigsbee·The Feminine in Winesburg, Ohio

John Updike·Twisted Apples

Joseph Dewey·No Cod in the Sky and No God in Myself "Godliness" and Anderson's Winesburg

Kim Townsend·[The Achievement of Winesburg]

David Stouck·Anderson's Expressionist Art

Sherwood Anderson：A Chronology

Selected Bibliography