His life
He was innate within Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second tike of William Lincoln Anders, the Baptist minister, and his married woman, at one time Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson. His personal ab initio last his enatic grannie's domestic within Atlantic, so moved to Andover, Ohio, where his father became the railroad fireman when researching to get a minister. It moved to Jamestown, North Dakota inside 1907, where Anderson attended Jamestown High School, graduating in 1908.

As an undergrad, he waited tables & worked at a nighttime copy desk of the Grand Forks Herald, and move in the school's literary & spectacular societies. He found the B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Dakota in 1911. He became the principal of a high around Minnewaukan, North Dakota, also teaching English there, but he was fired from either this job around 1913 because he experienced mass produced pacifist statements to his students. He so entered Stanford University, obtaining an M.A. in English Literature in 1914. He became the high school English teacher around San Francisco: after trine years he became chairperson of the English department at Whittier College in 1917. He was fired fallowing the year for public statements supporting a student looking for conscientious objector status.

He next became the newsperson for the San Francisco Chronicle, then moved to New York, where he wrote newspaper column for the The New Republic, the Evening Globe, and a Morning World.

Around 1921, he founded Measure, the magazine devoted to verse. He wrote his 1st play, White Desert, within 1923, which ran simply dozen performances, however was easily-reviewed per book reviewer for the New York World, Laurence Stallings, who collaborated sustaining him in his next play What Price Glory?, which was successfully produced withinside 1924 in New York City. Afterwords he resigned from either the World, launching his career as a playwright.

He wrote several easily-known plays, of widely-varying styles, & was one of couple modern dramatist to produce extensive utilize of blank verse. A bit of one became picture show, & Anderson wrote screen adaptations of his have plays likewise when victims of more authors & books of poetry & essays. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his political drama Both Your Houses, and twice standard a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, for Winterset, and High Tor.

Anderson was, above the lot, a hard believer in the dignity of human (although humanism might be as well heavy of the word), & several of his plays focus on the conception of liberty and justice. Anderson may probably exist as credited by owning popularizing a utilize of poetry inside modern drama. He chose to write inside solitude, preferring to write longhand in a wire-attached notebook, & refused to attend a opening nights of his plays.

He married Margaret Haskett, the fellow schoolfellow, in 1 August 1911 in Bottineau, North Dakota. It got trine sons, Quentin, Alan, & Terence. Margaret died of cancer in 22 February 1931. Anderson so resided by using Gertrude "Mab" Higger starting within astir October 1933. The girl, Hesper, was innate 2 August, 1934. Gertrude ("Mab") committed suicide in 21 March 1953. Her girl Hesper (world health organization was film writer for the moving-picture show Children of a Lesser God, wrote a book ''South Mountain Road: The Girl's Journeying of Discovery just about her unearthing, simply fallowing a suicide, a fact that her parents experienced never married. Maxwell Andersin did marry once again, to Gilda Hazard, on 6 June 1954.

Honorary awards include a Gold Ribbon inside Drama from either a National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954, an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Columbia University in 1946, and an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from either a University of North Dakota in 1958.

Maxwell Anderson died around Stamford, Connecticut, on 28 February 1959, two years when suffering the stroke.

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 a late musical theater by Arthur Laurents, unrelated but for title) Elizabeth the Queen - 1930 - a historical drama around blank verse Night Over Taos - 1932 Both Your Houses - 1933 -- Pulitzer Prize for Drama Mary of Scotland - 1933 - a historical drama inside blank verse Valley Forge - 1934 Winterset - 1935 - a verse tragedy inspired per 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-work play Knickerbocker Holiday - 1938 - book and lyrics Second Overture - 1938 - one-work play Key Largo - 1939 Journey to Jerusalem - 1940 Candle in the Wind - 1941 The Miracle of the Danube - 1941 - one-work play The Eve of St. Mark - 1942 Your Navy - 1942 - one-work play Storm Operation - 1944 Letter to Jackie - 1944 - one-work play Truckline Café - 1946 Joan of Lorraine - 1946 Anne of the Thousand Days - 1947 - a historical drama inside 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

Films
What Price Glory - 1926 - play Saturday's Children - 1929 - play Cock-Eyed World, The - 1929 - story All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930 - adaptation & dialogue The Guardsman - 1931 - play Elizabeth the Queen & one scene Rain - 1932 - adaptation Washington Merry-Go-Round - 1932 - play Death Takes a Holiday - 1934 We Live Again - 1934 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - 1935 - uncredited contributing writer Maybe It's Love - 1935 - play Saturday's Children So Red the Rose - 1935 Mary of Scotland - 1936 - play Winterset - 1936 - play The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex - 1939 - play 'Elizabeth the Queen Saturday's Children - 1940 - play Knickerbocker Holiday - 1944 - play The Eve of St. Mark - 1944 - play Winterset - 1945 - TV - play A la sombra del puente - 1946 - play Key Largo - 1948 - play Joan of Arc - 1948 - play Joan of Lorraine - screenplay Pulitzer Prize Playhouse - 1950 TV Series - play - four episoded Celanese Theatre - 1951 TV Series - play - two episodes What Price Glory - 1952 - play The Alcoa Hour - 1955 TV Series - play - episode "Key Largo" The Bad Seed - 1956 - play The Wrong Man - 1956 - novel The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero Never Steal Anything Small - 1959 - play The Devil's Hornpipe Ben-Hur - 1959 - uncredited Barefoot in Athens - 1966 - TV - play The Star Wagon - 1967 - TV - play Elizabeth the Queen - 1968 - TV - play Anne of the Thousand Days - 1969 - play Valley Forge - 1974 - TV - play Lost in the Stars - 1974 - play The Bad Seed - 1985 - TV - play Meet Joe Black (1998) (earlier screenplay) (inspiration)

Best-known Lyrics
(Worked by having composers Kurt Weill and Arthur Schwartz) "The September Song" (from either Knickerbocker Holiday) "Lost in the Stars" (from either Wasted in the Stars)) "Cry, The Beloved Country" (from either Misused in the Stars'')) "When You're in Love" "There's Nowhere to Go but Up" "It Never Was You" "Stay Well" "Trouble Man" (from either Wasted in the Stars)) "Thousands of Miles"

Books
You Who Have Dreams - 1925 - poetry a book of poetry The Essence of Tragedy and Other Footnotes and Papers - 1939 - essays Off Broadway Essays About the Theatre - 1947 - essays Notes on a Dream - 1972 - poetry