William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
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William Keepers Maxwell, Jr (August 16, 1908 - 2000) was an American novelist and editor. He was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois and Harvard University. He was the fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine for forty years (1936-1976), where he worked with writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Hara, Eudora Welty, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. He also wrote six novels, a number of short stories and essays, children's stories, and a memoir "Ancestors" (1972).
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[edit] Books
[edit] Novels
- Bright Center of Heaven (1934)
- They Came Like Swallows (1937)
- about the 1918 flu epidemic, as seen through the eyes of a 6 year old midwestern child and his family
- The Folded Leaf (1945)
- Time Will Darken It (1948)
- The Chateau (1961)
- So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
[edit] Short Story Collections
- The Heavenly Tenants (1946)
- Stories (1956)
- The Old Man and the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales (1966)
- Over the River and Other Stories (1977)
- Five Tales (1988)
- Billie Dyer and Other Stories (1992)
- All The Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwell (1995)
- Mrs. Donald's Dog Bun and His Home Away from Home (1995)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Ancestors: A Family History (memoir) (1972)
- The Outermost Dream (essay collection) (1989)
