ANDERSON, MAXWELL (1888-1959)
ABD repertuarına manzum tiyatro oyunu geleneğini yeniden getiren yazar. Fakat en tanınmış eseri, "Zaferin Bedeli Ne?" (1926)dir.

James Maxwell Anderson Atlantic, Pennsylvania da doğdu Rahip William Lincoln Anderson ve Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson'ın ikinci oğludur.

He was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second child of William Lincoln Anderson, a Baptist minister, and his wife, formerly Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson. His family initially lived on his maternal grandmother's farm in Atlantic, then moved to Andover, Ohio, where his father became a railroad fireman while studying to become a minister. They moved to Jamestown, North Dakota in 1907, where Anderson attended Jamestown High School, graduating in 1908.

Anderson wrote book and lyrics for two successful musicals with composer Kurt Weill. Knickerbocker Holiday was about the early Dutch settlers of New York, with Walter Huston as Peter Stuyvesant. The show's standout number, "September Song," became a popular standard. So did the title song of Anderson and Weill's Lost In The Stars, a story of South Africa based on the Alan Paton novel Cry, The Beloved Country.
His popular long-running 1927 comedy-drama about married life, Saturday's Children, in which Humphrey Bogart made an early appearance, was filmed three times - in 1929 as a part-talkie, in 1935 (in almost unrecognizable form) as a B-film entitled Maybe It's Love, and once again in 1940 under its original title, starring John Garfield in one of his few romantic comedies, along with Anne Shirley and Claude Rains. The play was also adapted for television in three condensed versions, in 1950, 1952, and 1962.

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