Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Maxwell Bodenheim
Born: May 26, 1892
Died: February 6, 1954 (aged 61)
Bio: Maxwell Bodenheim was an American poet and novelist. A literary figure in Chicago, he later went to New York where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Known for:
- My life and loves in Greenwich Village (1954)
- Introducing irony (1922)
- Cutie: A Warm Mamma (1924)







