Beginning with the publication of his 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, the Ohio-born writer Sherwood Anderson (18761941) exercised an immense influence on subsequent generations of American fiction writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, and a host of others. The stories and novels that followed Winesburg solidified his position as a pivotal figure in 20th-century American literature.