His maternal grandparents were Sidney Howard, screenwriter of Gone with the Wind and 70 other films, and Clare Eames, an actress.
William Howard Taft | John Howard | Howard Hughes | Howard Stern | Howard University | Ron Howard | Howard Dean | Sidney Poitier | Howard Hawks | Howard Zinn | The Howard Stern Show | Robert E. Howard | Sidney Lumet | Howard Shore | Howard Carter | Howard | Howard Baker | Sidney Nolan | Sidney Bechet | Howard County, Maryland | Trevor Howard | Philip Sidney | Michael Howard | Clint Howard | Leslie Howard | Clark Howard | Russell Howard | Howard Barker | Ebenezer Howard | Oliver O. Howard |
Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.
Among those he taught in his playwriting class were George Abbott, Philip Barry, S.N. Behrman, Hallie Flanagan, Sidney Howard, Stanley McCandless, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Sheldon, Maurine Dallas Watkins, and Thomas Wolfe.
Anders had a distinguished career on Broadway, appearing in three Pulitzer Prize winning plays: Hell Bent for Heaven (1924), written by Hatcher Hughes; They Knew What They Wanted (1924) by Sidney Howard; and Strange Interlude (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.