The Triumph of the Egg: a Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems

According to Wikipedia: "Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 - March 8, 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. That work's influence on American fiction was profound[1], and its literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell and others."