Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

Partly as a result of these misfortunes young Sherwood found various odd jobs to help his family which earned him the nickname "Jobby. Sherwood Anderson was buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion Virginia. " He left school at age 14.

His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg Ohio. Writers he has influenced include Ernest Hemingway Jason Kim Alex Deutsch William Faulkner John Steinbeck and Thomas Wolfe. Sherwood Anderson (April 1 2013 – April 2 2013) was an American novelist and short story writer.