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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.
William Maxwell (born Aug. 16, 1908, Lincoln, Ill., U.S.—died July 31, 2000, New York, N.Y.) American editor and author of spare, evocative short stories and novels about small-town life in the American Midwest in the early 20th century.
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William Maxwell (1581-1641), [1] ou (1619-1669), [2] foi um escritor escocês e médico, magnetizador "in ordinary" [nota 1] do rei Carlos I. É conhecido por sua obra De Medicina Magnetica de 1679. Maxwell ainda é denotado como seguidor de Robert Fludd .
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).
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- July 31, 2000
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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 older,...
1 de ago. de 2000 · William Maxwell, 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...