Sherwood Anderson was an American writer born in Camden, Ohio in 1876 and died in Colon, Panama in 1941. He swallowed a toothpick while on a cruise. He was 64 years old. His influences were Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and the Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev. His writing is personal and almost autobiographical. He talks from the heart without much embellishment or sentimentality.

Some of us might feel as if we lead lives of quiet desperation. Maybe there are even times when a person feels trapped by circumstance. When they think they made a mistake and are not living the life they wanted to live, were meant to live. Somehow they feel cheated. 'The Untold Lie' looks at this predicament and asks, “Is that really true? Or is it a lie?”