Anderson was born in Camden,Ohio the third of seven children of Erwin M. and Emma S. Anderson. After Erwin's business failed, the family was forced to move frequently, finally settling down at Clyde, Ohio in 1884. Family difficulties led Erwin to begin drinking heavily; he died in 1895.
Partly as a result of these misfortunes, young Sherwood found various odd jobs to help his family, which earned him the nickname "Jobby." He left school at age 14.
In 1904, he married Cornelia Lane, the daughter of a wealthy Ohio family. He fathered three children.
In November 1912 he suffered a mental breakdown and disappeared for four days. Soon after, he left his position as president of the Anderson Manufacturing Co. in Elyria, Ohio, and left his wife and three small children to pursue writing full time.
Anderson moved back to Chicago, working again for a publishing and advertising company. In 1916, he divorced Lane and married Tennessee Mitchell.
Anderson died in Panama at the age of 64.
- Excerpted from Wikipedia
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