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Windy McPherson's Son
''Windy McPherson's Son'' is a 1916 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson. It was published by John Lane as part of a three book contract. ''Windy McPherson's Son'' is Sherwood Anderson's first novel.
==Development history==
In September 1907, the Anderson family (at that time just Sherwood, his wife Cornelia and son Robert) moved from Cleveland to Elyria, Ohio, where Anderson became head of the Anderson Manufacturing Company (name changed to American Merchants Company after 1911).〔Townsend (1987), 60-61〕 As part of the family's new home, Anderson set aside an attic where he would escape the stresses of business and family life.〔Townsend (1987), 63〕 It was during one winter between 1907 and 1912 that both this room and his office (where Frances Shute, his secretary, would sometimes stay late typing drafts of his first two novels) served as the settings in which ''Windy McPherson's Sons'' was composed.〔Townsend (1987), 66 and 76〕 Though it is likely that most of his first novel was composed in Elyria, there is some evidence pointing to possible edits made between those early years and the novel's publication in 1916.〔Duffey (1966), 49〕
Obvious parallels can be drawn between the plot of Anderson's own life and that of his first novel.〔Duffey (1966), 50〕 The beginning section of the novel is inspired by his youth, the second "...combined the ways he had tried to make money in Chicago and Ohio..." and the marriage between Sam and Sue resembles the one between Sherwood and Cornelia.〔Townsend (1987), 66〕〔White (1994), xvii-xix〕 The characters of Mary Underwood and Janet Eberly were likely inspired by Trillena White, a high school teacher that befriended Anderson while he attended the Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio between 1899 and June 4, 1900, and stayed for a time with the Andersons in Elyria.〔Townsend (1987), 42-43 and 68〕〔Rideout (2006), 226〕
In addition to the personal connections between ''Windy McPherson's Son'' and the author's life made by biographers and critics, the influence of other writers is also seen in the book. Anderson himself said of his early writing that he had, "come to novel writing by novel reading."〔Anderson quote by way of Townsend (1987), 67-68 and White (1994), xxvii〕 In particular, William Dean Howells (whose writing Anderson disliked), Arnold Bennett, Thomas Hardy, Henry Fuller, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and George Borrow, are all mentioned by Anderson biographer Kim Townsend as authors Anderson would have been reading and discussing at the time he wrote ''Windy McPherson's Son''.〔Townsend (1987), 68〕 In his 1951 biography of Anderson, Irving Howe disagrees with Townsend and even Anderson's own statement, arguing that other than the "early social novels of H.G. Wells and the radical-adventure stories of Jack London...Anderson's early novels were all too much his own, reflecting in their style the natural inclination of a poorly educated writer to strain for the literary and lapse into the colloquial."〔Howe (1951), 90〕
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