Maxwell Geismar

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

He wrote a biography of Mark Twain. He penned the introduction to Eldridge Cleaver's ''Soul on Ice.''

Geismar taught at Sarah Lawrence College for many years. He signed the Triple Revolution statement sent to President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Writers in crisis ; the American novel, 1925-1940: Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck.
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1961
    Book
  2. 2
    Writers in crisis ; the American novel between two wars /
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1942
    Book
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    The last of the provincials ; the American novel, 1915-1925: H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1959
    Book
  4. 4
    American moderns, from rebellion to conformity.
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1958
    Book
  5. 5
    The last of the provincials ; the American novel, 1915-1925. H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1947
    Book
  6. 6
    Mark Twain : an American prophet /
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1970
    Book
  7. 7
    Ring Lardner and the portrait of folly /
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1972
    Book
  8. 8
    Rebels and ancestors ; the American novel, 1890-1915: Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Ellen Glasgow [and] Theodore Dreiser.
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1953
    Book
  9. 9
    Henry James and his cult.
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1964
    Book
  10. 10
    Henry James and the Jacobites.
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1963
    Book
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    The last of the provincials : the American novel, 1915-1925 : H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald /
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1947
    Book
  12. 12
    Henry James and the Jacobites /
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1962
    Book Chapter
  13. 13
    Mark Twain : an American prophet /
    by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979
    Published 1973
    Book
  14. 14
    Mark Twain and the three R's : race, religion, revolution--and related matters /
    by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
    Published 1973
    Other Authors: “...Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979...”
    Book
  15. 15
    The naturalist novel /
    by Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
    Published 1964
    Other Authors: “...Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979...”
    Book
  16. 16
    The Whitman reader /
    by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
    Published 1955
    Other Authors: “...Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979...”
    Book
  17. 17
    The portable Thomas Wolfe /
    by Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938
    Published 1946
    Other Authors: “...Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979...”
    Book
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    Billy Budd ; Beníto Cereno /
    by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
    Published 1965
    Other Authors: “...Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979...”
    Book
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