The author of Winesburg, Ohio (1919) Sherwood Anderson died of peritonitis after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party in 1941.
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Actually, he died of swallowing a toothpick that was in a sandwich. He taught my grandmother how to type on his typewriter.