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James Maxwell Anderson entered the world on the 15th of December 1888, in Atlantic, Pennsylvania. He was the second of eight children born to William Lincoln Anderson and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson.
Anderson lost his position as chairman at Whittier College after one year for supporting Arthur Camp, a jailed student seeking status as a conscientious objector during World War I. He also faced dismissal from other roles due to pacifist statements made to students and editorial claims regarding Germany's war debt.
Anderson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for Both Your Houses, a political drama. He received two New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Winterset and High Tor. His play What Price Glory opened successfully in New York City in 1924 and became his first Broadway hit.
Anderson married Margaret Haskett on the 1st of August 1911, in Bottineau, North Dakota. He later married Gilda Hazard on the 6th of June 1954, which marriage lasted until his death in 1959.
Half of his papers and personal effects are housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. This archive contains over sixty boxes including manuscripts, letters, diaries, financial papers, and family photographs. Smaller collections exist at institutions like the Chester Fritz Library and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.