Maxwell Anderson

Maxwell Anderson was born in 1888 in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the son of a Baptist minister who moved often, and studied in North Dakota and then at Stanford. Dismissed in 1913 from a school principalship for pacifist remarks, then in 1918 from a college for having supported a conscientious objector, he became a journalist in New York. He wrote some thirty plays, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for a comedy about a rigged bill in Congress, worked for the cinema and wrote two musicals with Kurt Weill. He died in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1959.

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• TheatreWintersetMaxwell Anderson · 1935Literature