This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1923
and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
'Many Marriages' is a novel about a changing society and people's
relationships within it. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories
and novels. He moved to Chicago, where he found work in an advertising
agency and became friends with other writers in Chicago, including Floyd
Dell, Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht and Carl Sandburg. Starting in 1914,
the now-politicised Anderson began having his work published in 'The
Masses', a socialist journal. Anderson's first novel, 'Windy McPherson's
Son', was published in 1916. This was followed by the novel 'Marching
Men' (1917) and a collection of prose poems, 'Mid-American Chants'
(1918). A year later, 'Winesburg, Ohio' (1919), Anderson's
best-remembered and best-known work, was published.