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Maxwell Anderson was born on December 15, 1888 in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the second of eight children to William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson.
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Maxwell Anderson was born on December 15, 1888 in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the second of eight children to William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson.
Since his father was a Baptist clergyman who changed parsonages frequently, Maxwell Anderson attended 13 schools in states from Pennsylvania to North Dakota. In 1911 he graduated from the University of North Dakota.
Maxwell Anderson taught at Stanford University while earning his master's degree and held positions with the Call-Bulletin and the Chronicle in San Francisco. In New York from 1918 on, he contributed to the New Republic, worked on the Evening Globe and the World, and helped found a poetry magazine, The Measure.
The production of White Desert (1923) started Anderson's writing career on the New York stage. Of his eight plays produced prior to 1930, four were written in collaboration and one was an adaptation of a novel.
His collaboration with Laurence Stallings on What Price Glory? (1924) was successful. A realistic portrait of men in war, it proved a welcome contrast to earlier romantic treatments of the subject. Saturday's Children (1927), a compassionate though conventional domestic drama, was received favorably. Anderson collaborated on an interesting failure concerned with the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Gods of the Lightning (1928), in which propaganda overcame dramatic skill.
Anderson's reputation soared in the 1930s. Elizabeth the Queen (1930) is a moving story of love confronted by the realities of politics and ambition. Mary of Scotland (1933) has a memorable picture of a woman overcome in a political battle to the death. Both Your Houses (1933) shows a political intrigue in Congress. His Winterset is a mature treatment of the Sacco-Vanzetti materials with a daring use of verse and High Tor (1936) is an effective blend of fantasy and reality. The Star Wagon (1937) and Knicker-bocker Holiday (1938) were popular successes.
With the exception of Journey to Jerusalem (1940), the influence of the war appears in all his plays from Key Largo (1939) through Truckline Café (1946); the most esteemed is The Eve of St. Mark (1942). In 1947 his Off Broadway: Essays about the Theatre was published.
After World War II Anderson's reputation faded. Of his last eight plays, Joan of Lorraine (1946) and Anne of a Thousand Days (1948) are notable, but only Lost in the Stars (1949), a musical adaptation of a novel on South Africa, was a critical success. He continued to enjoy relative seclusion and a rural atmosphere while avoiding personal publicity and Broadway habitats. His thirty-second and last full-length play, The Golden Six (1958), was a failure.
Maxwell Anderson is noted for his efforts to make verse tragedy a popular form. His play Both Your Houses received the Pulitzer Prize in 1933. In 1935 he won his first Drama Critics' Circle Award with Winterset; he won this prize again with High Tor. In 1938 he helped organize the Playwrights Company.
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Quotations:
"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right."
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
"The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero."
"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."
In 1950 Maxwell Anderson was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
On August 1, 1911 Maxwell Anderson married Margaret Haskett. They had three sons: Quentin, Alan, and Terence.Anderson's wife died in 1931, and he married Gertrude Maynard in 1933. Following the death of his second wife in 1953, Anderson married Gilda Hazard.
