Before suffering a nervous breakdown, he ran a manufacturing company and was an inventor, paralleling Hugh McVey the main character of his novel Poor White.
He wrote about the "human side of the New Deal," in a collection of non-fiction essays, Puzzled America. Before suffering a nervous breakdown, he ran a manufacturing company and was an inventor, paralleling Hugh McVey the main character of his novel Poor White. Writing his first novel at age 40, Windy McPherson's Son, one section of another of this man's novel tells of a man who spent most of his life driving about the Ohio countryside in his horse-drawn buggy, named Doctor Reefy. That section "Paper Pills," appears in a novel that recounts the lives of such characters as George and Emily Willard living in the titular town. For 10 points, name this 20th century American author of Winesburg, Ohio. 
He wrote about the "human side of the New Deal," in a collection of non-fiction essays, Puzzled America.
Sherwood {Anderson}