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Setting

Anderson grew up in Clyde, Ohio, and this town served as the model for his fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio. There is some confusion on which town served as the model for this fictional work, because there is a real town with the name Winesburg, Ohio. Anderson reportedly created his fictional characters by combining the qualities of many real life people from notable families in the area, such as the Dumingers, Farrars, Belchers, Skeelses, Crockets, and Wises.