Maxine Finsterwald

Maxine Finsterwald (1906 – April 7, 1993) wrote radio scripts, plays, short stories, and newspaper features in the United States. She sometimes used the pen name Maxine Wood.

Early life and career She was born Maxine Flora Finsterwald in Marion, Wisconsin, She grew up in Detroit, Michigan.

She wrote radio scripts for Kaffee Klatch and Playhouse of the Air before moving to New York City.

She was a supporter of a proposed Conference on Civil and Human Rights organized in the wake of jailings of Communist Party organizers in the United States.

Carnegie Mellon University has a collection of papers related to her early career and plays up through 1946. The University of Iowa has a collection of her papers.

She was interviewed December 10, 1974.

Death She died of congestive heart failure.

Plays Giants in Chains (1928) The Severed Cord (1929) Seven Against One (1930) staged on Broadway in 1946 Sandals and Golden Heels (1948)