American author of 30 unrevealed novels, creating a style known as "word jazz". Sherwood was the eldest son of a prominent family (his grandfather was a founder of General Mills, then Western Airlines, his uncle the creator of Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions and financier of movies in the 1920's and 1930's). He passed a childhood marked by social attention and privilege, and wrote his first complete novel at age 14. He went on to become a published short story writer, reporter, syndicated columnist, international correspondent and by age 19 the youngest newspaper editor in California, hired by Cecil B. DeMille. Sherwood published poetry, produced verse play and independent film series. He went to Paris in 1961 where The Olympia Press published Stradella - the novel which became a bestseller in France, England and around the world outside America, an integral part of what became "the sexual revolution" and the defeat of First Amendment censorship in the USA. His book Stradella was banned in Australia in 1966.
