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Maxwell Anderson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1933 for Both Your Houses, a political drama. He also received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award twice, for Winterset and for High Tor.
Maxwell Anderson wrote the book and lyrics for two musicals with composer Kurt Weill: Knickerbocker Holiday, featuring the song "September Song", and Lost in the Stars, based on Alan Paton's novel Cry, The Beloved Country. A third collaboration, a musical adaptation of Huckleberry Finn, was left unfinished when Weill died in 1950.
Anderson was fired repeatedly throughout the early part of his career for expressing unpopular opinions. He lost teaching jobs for making pacifist statements and for publicly supporting a conscientious objector, and lost newspaper positions for editorial stances on Germany's war debt and for missing work due to Spanish flu.
Maxwell Anderson wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's The Wrong Man in 1957. Hitchcock also contracted with him to write the script for what became Vertigo in 1958, but rejected Anderson's screenplay, which was titled Darkling, I Listen.
The largest collection of Maxwell Anderson's papers, over sixty boxes, is housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. It was placed there in 1961 by his widow, Gilda Hazard Anderson. Smaller collections are held at the Chester Fritz Library, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Maxwell Anderson died on the 28th of February 1959 in Stamford, Connecticut, two days after suffering a stroke, at the age of 70. He was cremated; half his ashes were scattered near his home in Stamford and the other half was buried in Anderson Cemetery near his birthplace in rural northwestern Pennsylvania.