Maxwell Bodenheim
Maxwell Bodenheim was born in Hermanville, Mississippi, United States on May 26th, 1892 and is the Poet. At the age of 61, Maxwell Bodenheim biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26, 1892 – February 6, 1954) was an American poet and novelist.
He later moved to New York, where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians.
During the Jazz Age of the 1920s, his writing brought him international fame.
Personal life and death
Bodenheim had three wives. Minna Schein, his first wife, was born 1918, but he had one son, Solbert, who was born 1920. Grace Finan, his second wife (married 1939-her death 1950), was his second wife (married 1939-1949). Ruth Fagin married him after becoming a widower (married 1952-their deaths 1954).
Ruth, a 28-year-old boy, opened an account of his derelict lifestyle. They were homeless and slept on park benches. Although he had clear vision, he panhandled while clutching a sign that read "I Am Blind." He has written short poems for sale or alcohol. Ruth was involved in prostitution, which reportedly caused beatings for her husband.
Bodenheim and Ruth were killed on February 6, 1954, at a flophouse on 97 Third Avenue in Manhattan, by Harold "Charlie" Weinberg, a 25-year-old dishwasher. They had befriended him on the streets of the village, and he had promised to let them sleep in his room a few blocks from the Bowery. Weinberg and Ruth had sex near the cot, where the 62-year-old Bodenheim appeared to be asleep. Bodenheim arose, insulted Weinberg, and the two groups began to fight. Weinberg fired Bodenheim twice in the chest. He beat Ruth and stabbed her four times in the back. Weinberg admitted to the double murder but said in his defense, "I should get a medal." Two Communists were killed," I said. Weinberg was declared insane (sociopathic) and sent to a mental hospital.
Hecht offered to pay for Bodenheim's funeral. Minna, Bodenheim's ex-wife, made arrangements to have him buried in his family's plot in Emerson, New Jersey, Cedar Park Cemetery.
The Bodenheims had spent some time (perhaps two months) as guests of the Catholic Worker of Dorothy Day in New York last year. In Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Day had been a friend of Maxwell. In her Loaves and Fishes (1963), she dedicated a chapter to the Bodenheims.