The Lovelies of John Alan Maxwell 2014 is a documentary film about East Tennessee native John Alan Maxwell, who established his studio at the famous Tenth Street Studio in Greenwich Village New York in the 1920s. The film provides a haunting look into the life of bohemian culture of 1920s-30s Greenwich Village, from the distinctly southern eye of an artist haunted by the memories of his own grandfather in the not-so-distant Civil War. The film explores his works for such luminary writers as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Pearl S. Buck, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway, among many others. In 1948, Esquire magazine compared Maxwell to William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe as one of the many talents of the Modern South.