Maxwell Anderson

(James) Maxwell Anderson (15 December 1888 – 28 February 1959) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter and lyricist, and a founding member of The Playwrights' Company (which included, at various times, Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Sidney Howard, Roger L. Stevens, John F. Wharton, and Kurt Weill), and produced many notable plays of the 20th century.

Plays and Musicals

• White Desert - 1923
• What Price Glory? - 1924 - a war drama
• First Flight - 1925 - written with Laurence Stallings
• The Buccaneer - 1925
• Outside Looking In - 1925
• Saturday's Children - 1927
• Gods of the Lightning - 1929 (written with Harold Nickerson)
• Gypsy - 1928 - (not the later musical by Arthur Laurents, unrelated but for title)
• Elizabeth the Queen - 1930 - a historical drama in blank verse
• Night Over Taos - 1932
• Both Your Houses - 1933 -- Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• Mary of Scotland - 1933 - a historical drama in blank verse
• Valley Forge - 1934
• Winterset - 1935 - a verse tragedy inspired by the Sacco and Vanzetti case - First Annual New York Critics Circle Award
• The Masque of Kings - 1936
• The Wingless Victory - 1936
• High Tor - 1936 - New York Critics Circle Award
• Star-Wagon - 1937
• The Feast of Ortolans - 1937 - one-act play
• Knickerbocker Holiday - 1938 - book and lyrics
• Second Overture - 1938 - one-act play
• Key Largo - 1939
• Journey to Jerusalem - 1940
• Candle in the Wind - 1941
• The Miracle of the Danube - 1941 - one-act play
• The Eve of St. Mark - 1942
• Your Navy - 1942 - one-act play
• Storm Operation - 1944
• Letter to Jackie - 1944 - one-act play
• Truckline Café - 1946
• Joan of Lorraine - 1946
• Anne of the Thousand Days - 1947 - a historical drama in blank verse
• Lost in the Stars - 1949 - book and lyrics
• Barefoot in Athens - 1951
• The Bad Seed - 1954
• High Tor - 1956 (TV score)
• The Day the Money Stopped - 1958 - (written with Brendan Gill)
• The Golden Six - 1958