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Maxwell Geismar

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Maxwell Geismar
BornAugust 1, 1909 (1909-08)
New York, New York, U.S.
DiedJuly 24, 1979 (1979-07-25) (aged 69)
Harrison, New York
Alma materColumbia University
Harvard University
Genreliterary criticism and biography
Notable worksBiography 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.[1][2] He also penned the introduction to Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice.[3] A teacher at Sarah Lawrence College for many years, he signed "The Triple Revolution", sent to President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

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