Maxwell Geismar
Maxwell Geismar | |
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| Born | August 1, 1909 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 24, 1979 (aged 69) |
| Education | Columbia University Harvard University |
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| Genres | literary criticism and biography |
| Notable work | Biography of Mark Twain |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1942) |
Maxwell David Geismar (August 1, 1909 – July 1979) was an American writer, literary critic and biographer of Mark Twain.[1][2]
Geismar wrote the introduction to Forgive My Grief: Volume II by Penn Jones Jr., which critiqued the Warren Commission.[3] He also penned the introduction to Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice (1968).[4] A teacher at Sarah Lawrence College for many years, he signed "The Triple Revolution", sent to President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
Writings
[edit]- Preface to Jones Jr., Penn (1967). Forgive My Grief: Volume II.
- Introduction to Cleaver, Eldridge (1968). Soul on Ice. A Delta Book.
References
[edit]- ↑ M. D. Geismar. Mark Twain: An American Prophet. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
- ↑ Brief biography of Maxwell Geismar
- ↑ Miller, Albert Jay (1972). Confrontation, Conflict, and Dissent A Bibliography of a Decade of Controversy, 1960-1970. Scarecrow Press. p. 55.
- ↑ Text of Introduction to Soul on Ice
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