Maxwell Geismar

Maxwell Geismar
BornAugust 1, 1909 (1909-08)
New York, New York, U.S.
DiedJuly 24, 1979(1979-07-24) (aged 69)
Harrison, New York
EducationColumbia University
Harvard University
Writing career
Genresliterary criticism and biography
Notable workBiography of Mark Twain
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1942)

Maxwell David Geismar (August 1, 1909 – July 1979) was an American writer, literary critic and biographer of Mark Twain.

Geismar wrote the introduction to Forgive My Grief: Volume II by Penn Jones Jr., which critiqued the Warren Commission. He also penned the introduction to Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice (1968). A teacher at Sarah Lawrence College for many years, he signed "The Triple Revolution", sent to President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Writings

References

  1. ↑ M. D. Geismar. Mark Twain: An American Prophet. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
  2. ↑ Brief biography of Maxwell Geismar
  3. ↑ Miller, Albert Jay (1972). Confrontation, Conflict, and Dissent A Bibliography of a Decade of Controversy, 1960-1970. Scarecrow Press. p. 55.
  4. ↑ Text of Introduction to Soul on Ice