Author Sherwood Anderson(Sep.13, 1876-March 8,1941)was a great American writer,the author of 27 works and 7 novels.He was also a poet and a playwright,a newspaper editor and a political journalist. The end of Author. 回 Author The end of Author. Sherwood Anderson (Sep. 13, 1876–March 8, 1941) was a great American writer, the author of 27 works and 7 novels. He was also a poet and a playwright, a newspaper editor and a political journalist