Maxwell Anderson

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Maxwell Anderson : biography

December 15, 1888 – February 28, 1959

Death

Maxwell Anderson died in Stamford, Connecticut, on February 28, 1959, two days after suffering a stroke. He was 70 years old. He was cremated. Half of his ashes were scattered by the sea near his home in Stamford. The other half was buried in Anderson Cemetery near his birthplace in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. The inscription on his tombstone reads:

Stage productions

  • White Desert – 1923
  • What Price Glory – 1924 – a war drama
  • First Flight – 1925 – (with Laurence Stallings)
  • Outside Looking In (play) – 1925
  • Saturday’s Children – 1927
  • Gods of the Lightning – 1929 (with Harold Hickerson)
  • Gypsy – 1928 –
  • 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 – New York Drama Critics Circle Award
  • The Masque of Kings – 1936
  • The Wingless Victory – 1936
  • Star-Wagon – 1937
  • High Tor – 1937 New York Drama Critics Circle Award
  • 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 (partially written in blank verse) – 1946
  • Anne of the Thousand Days – 1948 – 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 – (with Brendan Gill)
  • The Golden Six – 1958