TWA Poet: Maxwell Bodenheim

1892 - 1954

It's the birthday of poet and novelist Maxwell Bodenheim, born in Hermanville, Mississippi (1892). His family was among the only Jews in rural Mississippi, and after his father's store went bankrupt, his family moved to Chicago.

About 1912, the young Bodenheim andwriter Ben Hecht met in Chicago and became literary friends about 1912. They co-founded The…