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Maxwell Anderson


Born
in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, The United States
December 15, 1888

Died
February 28, 1959

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Genre
Fiction


Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, poet, and journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1933, for Both Your Houses, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for both Winterset and High Tor.

Several of his plays were adapted into successful movies, including Anne of the Thousand Days and Key Largo.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 815 ratings · 125 reviews · 149 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Bad Seed
3.92 avg rating — 224 ratings — 15 editions
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Anne of the Thousand Days
3.91 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1950 — 3 editions
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Winterset
3.39 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1935 — 31 editions
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Elizabeth the Queen
3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — 22 editions
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Mary of Scotland
3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1933 — 25 editions
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Barefoot in Athens
3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1951 — 11 editions
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What Price Glory?
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1924 — 6 editions
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Joan of Lorraine
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1947 — 15 editions
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Key Largo
3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
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High Tor
3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1936 — 8 editions
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“Your Queen I cannot be. Your mistress I will not be.”
― Maxwell Anderson, Anne of the Thousand Days
tags: famous-quotes
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“If other planets dark as earth
About dim trembling stars
Carry frail freight of death and birth,
Wild love, and endless wars;

If from far, unseen motes in flight
Life look down questioning
This helpless passage through the night
Is a less lonely thing:”
― Maxwell Anderson, You Who Have Dreams
tags: existence, life, meaning-of-life, poems, poetry, space, universe
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