Ohio writer Anderson achieved fame with his third book, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a collection of short stories about life in a small American town. Hemingway met Anderson in Chicago in 1921, and Anderson urged Ernest and Hadley to move to Paris. After their marriage on September 3, 1921, they took Anderson's advice, and he supplied them with letters of introduction for some of the leading literary figures in Paris. Hemingway's first American publication was with Boni and Liveright, also Anderson's publisher.
Although Hemingway seems to have admired Anderson early, his pattern of turning against a mentor or friend held true in this case, too. Anderson's Dark Laughter, which appeared in 1925, prompted the satirical Torrents of Spring by Hemingway, which was so transparent an attack on the Anderson novel and style that Boni and Liveright had to reject the manuscript, thereby breaking their contract with Ernest, and leading him to Scribner's, with whom he was associated the rest of his life.