James Maxwell Anderson, better known as Maxwell Anderson, is an American playwright born on 15 December 1888 in Atlantic, Pennsylvania (USA), who died on 28 February 1959 in Stamford (Connecticut). He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his play Both Your Houses and twice the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, rewarding Winterset (1935) and High Tor (1937). According to Alfred S. Shivers, so to say that the 20 were those of Eugene O'Neill, the 30 were undoubtedly those of Maxwell Anderson. It is also known as a poet, journalist, screenwriter and composer.
Theatrical works
White Desert - 1923
What Price Glory - 1924
First Flight - 1925
Outside looking in - 1925
Outside Looking In - 1925
Saturday's Children - 1927
Gods of the Lightning - 1929 (written in collaboration with musician Harold Hickerson)
Gypsy - 1928
Elizabeth the Queen - 1930
Night Over Taos - 1932
Both Your Houses - 1933 Pulitzer Prize Theater
Mary of Scotland - 1933
Valley Forge - 1934
Winterset - 1935 Award of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1st edition)
The Masque of Kings - 1936
The wingless Victory - 1936
Star-Wagon - 1937
High Tor - 1937 Award of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award
The Feast of Ortolan - 1937
Knickerbocker Holiday - 1938 (room and music)
Second Overture - 1938
Key Largo - 1939
Journey to Jerusalem - 1940
Candle in the Wind - 1941
The Miracle of the Danube - 1941
The Eve of St. Mark - 1942
Your Navy - 1942
Operation Storm - 1944
Letter to Jackie - 1944
Truckline Cafe - 1946
Joan of Lorraine - 1946
Anne of the Thousand Days - 1948
Lost in the Stars - 1949
Barefoot in Athens - 1951
The Bad Seed - 1954
High Tor - 1956
The Day the Money Stopped - 1958 (written with Brendan Gill)
The Golden Six - 1958
