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William Maxwell. : Later Novels and Stories. “It warms the heart to hold almost all of Maxwell’s fiction in two sizable, relatively imperishable Library of America volumes, timed to be published a hundred years after his birth.”. — John Updike, The New Yorker. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts.
It is an extraordinary and wonderfully surprising experience: here is an American provincial world presented in miniature and in exquisite detail, as though the death of his mother froze Maxwell’s sensory memory in one place and in one time. In almost all of Maxwell’s novels the relationship between Maxwell and his older, more vigorous ...
William Maxwell. William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American novelist, editor, and essayist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker for 40 years, where he worked with many notable authors. Maxwell's own literary works include novels, short stories, and essays, often exploring themes of family and memory.
25 de jan. de 2008 · Embed. The Library of America has just published the first of a two-volume collection of the novels and stories of the late writer William Maxwell, whose writing voice John Updike once described ...
11 de mai. de 2010 · Maxwell was born in 1908 in Urbana, Illinois. He joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1936 as an assistant to Katharine White, and, save for two brief stints away from the magazine, he edited ...
William Maxwell has 90 books on Goodreads with 62608 ratings. William Maxwell’s most popular book is So Long, See You Tomorrow.
26 de jan. de 2024 · William Maxwell was a novelist of gentle contradictions. For decades a fixture in the literary world, a fiction editor at the New Yorker who saw Nabokov and others into print, he wrote book after ...
