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.

References

• The Maxwell Anderson papers are housed at the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections of the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota
• Shivers, Alfred. The Life of Maxwell Anderson. New York: Stein and Day, 1983.
• The National Cyclopedia of American Biography vol. 60: pp. 323-325.
• Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement Six: pp. 14-16
• bibliography by M. Cox (1958, repr. 1974).