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Return to a Small Town: Sherwood Anderson as a Country Newspaper Editor, 1927-28

Snyder, Cary M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1201747930

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2008, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Journalism (Communication).
Sherwood Anderson made the unusual move in 1927 of abandoning his literary career at the height of his fame to run two weekly newspapers in Marion, Virginia. The author best known for Winesburg, Ohioand serving as a mentor to such renowned writers as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway incorporated his story-telling abilities into the Smyth County Newsand the Marion Democrat. This thesis uses his fiction, personal letters, newspaper articles and his most comprehensive biographies to show why his literary background and childhood in the small town of Clyde, Ohio, led him to buy the newspapers in what has been called an "episode unique in American newspaper history." The fourteen months he spent as editor are examined in detail along with how the experience led him to focus the second half of his writing career on the lives of factory workers during the Great Depression.
Patrick Washburn (Advisor)
101 p.
Sherwood Anderson; Smyth County News; Marion Democrat; Marion, Virginia; country newspaper editor; Clyde, Ohio; Winesburg, Ohio

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  • Snyder, C. M. (2008). Return to a Small Town: Sherwood Anderson as a Country Newspaper Editor, 1927-28 [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1201747930

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Snyder, Cary. Return to a Small Town: Sherwood Anderson as a Country Newspaper Editor, 1927-28. 2008. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1201747930.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Snyder, Cary. "Return to a Small Town: Sherwood Anderson as a Country Newspaper Editor, 1927-28." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1201747930

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