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Maxwell Bodenheim
 
1893 - 1954

Maxwell Bodenheim was once mentioned in the same breath as Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser, but his reputation has suffered since his death. Born in Hermanville, Mississippi, Bodenheim was a poet, novelist, and playwright who hobnobbed with the "Chicago group" of writers for a while, then moved on to New York City, only to be shot and killed in 1954.

Works:

  • Minna and Myself, 1918
  • Advice: A Book of Poems, 1920
  • Introducing Irony: A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems, 1922
  • Against This Age, 1923
  • Blackguard, 1923
  • The Sardonic Arm, 1923
  • Crazy Man, 1924
  • Replenishing Jessica, 1925
  • Ninth Avenue, 1926
  • Georgie May, 1928
  • The King of Spain: A Book of Poems, 1928
  • Returning to Emotion, 1927
  • Sixty Seconds, 1929
  • Bringing Jazz! 1930
  • Run, Sheep, Run, 1932
  • New York Madness, 1933
  • Slow Vision, 1934
  • Lights in the Valley, 1942
  • My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village, 1954

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