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Abstract
Death in the Woods and Other Stories (1933) is a very different book than Andersons first three volumes of tales. It waspuhlished ten vears alter Howes and Men, and. as Maxwell Geismer reminds us, it is the product of an older writer who has experienced many significant personal and professional changes since the early 1920s. Two of the most noteworthy changes were the publication of the autobiographical novels. A Story Teller's Story (1924) and Tar: A Midwest Childhood (1926) and his move awav from his Chicago circle of fellow artists and intellectuals to Marion, Smyth Count); Virginia. Here, he owned and operated both a Republican and a Democratic newspaper whose editorials were eventually collected in Hello Towns (1929). Geismer notes that although the decade of the twenties was a tormented period for Anderson, a time of self-discovery and roevaluation, it did not indicate the cm\ of his career; rather, it was a period of maturity that culminated with the publication of Death in the Woods and Other Stories (xiii).