Resultado da Busca
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975. An editor devoted to his writers, Maxwell became a mentor and confidant to many authors.
- Domestic realism
- July 31, 2000 (aged 91), New York City, U.S.
- August 16, 1908, Lincoln, Illinois, U.S.
19 de abr. de 2024 · William Maxwell was an American editor and author of spare, evocative short stories and novels about small-town life in the American Midwest in the early 20th century. Educated at the University of Illinois (B.A., 1930) and Harvard University (M.A., 1931), Maxwell taught English at the University.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
31 de jul. de 2000 · William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American novelist, and fiction editor at the New Yorker. He studied at the University of Illinois and Harvard University. Maxwell wrote six highly acclaimed novels, a number of short stories and essays, children's stories, and a memoir, Ancestors (1972).
- (20,2K)
- July 31, 2000
- August 16, 1908
23 de ago. de 2021 · THE AMERICANS. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life. Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an...
William Maxwell was a small-town boy from Illinois who edited some of the century's literary lions in 40 years at The New Yorker while also writing novels and short stories that secured his own...
21 de jul. de 2005 · Burkhardt's critical biography, "William Maxwell: A Literary Life," is a valiant attempt to chart the relations between the stories Maxwell told and those he lived. It has all the benefits...
William Maxwell. William Maxwell nasceu em 1908, em Lincoln, no Illinois. Aos 14 anos, sua família mudou-se para Chicago. Lá ele continuou sua educação, mais tarde ingressando na Universidade de Illinois.
