Max Eastman Quotes


He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.


Citations

Eastman, Max. Enjoyment of Laughter. Simon and Schuster, 1936.

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Max Eastman
Max Eastman
  • Born: January 4, 1883
  • Died: March 25, 1969
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Political Activist

Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts.