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His plays are in widely varying styles, and Anderson was one of the few modern playwrights to make extensive use of blank verse.

Some of these were adapted as movies, and Anderson wrote the screenplays of other authors ' plays and novels – Death Takes a Holiday, All Quiet on the Western Front – in addition to books of poetry and essays.

His first Broadway hit was the gritty 1924 WW I comedy-drama, What Price Glory, written with Laurence Stallings.

The play was notable for its use of profanity, which caused censors to protest.

But when the chief censor ( Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett ) was found to have written far more obscene letters to General Chamberlaine, he was discredited: soldiers really did speak that way.