Sherwood Anderson (Camden, Ohio, 1876 - Columbus, Panama, 1941). American writer and novelist of great influence in the American narrative, especially in the short story, because of his technique and the use of popular language in his stories. With him the story stopped being an artificial genre. Their stories seem to be the result of improvisation, a quality that makes them, at the same time, lyrical and credible. His most famous storybook is Winesburg, Ohio, whose stories are related to each other from the point of view of a reporter-narrator, technique used for the first time in the genre of the story. His later books of stories, although less known, would ratify his quality: The triumph of the egg (1921), of which we have selected the stories that make up this book; Horses and Men (1923) and Death in the Forest and Other Stories (1933).