author
Maxwell Bodenheim
1893–1954
A sharp-edged poet and novelist of the early modernist scene, he moved through Chicago and Greenwich Village with a reputation as bold as his writing. His life became almost as legendary as his books, ending in one of the most tragic stories in American literary bohemia.
8 Audiobooks
Cutie: A Warm Mamma
by Ben Hecht, Maxwell Bodenheim
Introducing Irony: A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems
by Maxwell Bodenheim
Advice: A Book of Poems
by Maxwell Bodenheim
Minna and Myself
by Maxwell Bodenheim
Against This Age
by Maxwell Bodenheim
Ninth Avenue
by Maxwell Bodenheim
The Sardonic Arm
by Maxwell Bodenheim
Blackguard
by Maxwell Bodenheim
About the author
Born in Hermanville, Mississippi, Maxwell Bodenheim was a poet and novelist associated with the literary worlds of Chicago and later New York's Greenwich Village. Reliable sources describe him as largely self-educated, and by the 1910s he had become part of the Chicago Renaissance before gaining wider notice for poetry and fiction that helped shape early American modernism.
He published numerous books across poetry and fiction, including Minna and Myself, Advice, and the novel Blackguard. Critics and reference works remember him both for his experimental, modern style and for the way he brought the energy of bohemian life directly into his public image.
In later years, his fame as a Greenwich Village personality often overshadowed his writing, and his life grew increasingly difficult. He died in New York on February 6, 1954, but he remains a vivid figure in accounts of American literary modernism and Jazz Age bohemia.