Sherwood Anderson was an American short story writer from Ohio and became influential upon many subsequent writers, including Hemingway and Faulkner. The last chapter within New Orleans Sketches is an essay about Anderson that was written by Faulkner for the Dallas, Morning News in 1925 and demonstrates the concepts and standards which Faulkner wanted to include within his own work:

Here are the green shoots, battling with earth for sustenance, threatened by the crows of starvation; and here was Mr. Anderson, helping around livery stables and race tracks, striping bicycles in a factory until the impulse to tell his story became too strong to be longer resisted.

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These people live and breathe: they are beautiful. There is the man who organized a baseball club, the man with the "speaking" hands, Elizabeth Willard, middle-aged, and the oldish doctor, between whom was a love that Cardinal Bembo might have dreamed. There is a Greek word for a love like theirs which Mr. Anderson probably had never heard. And behind all of them a ground of fecund earth and corn in the green spring and the slow, full hot summer and the rigorous masculine winter that hurts it not, but makes it stronger.

That last paragraph refer's to Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: a group of tales of Ohio small town life, and which can be found at the Gutenberg Project.