About William Maxwell
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. was an American novelist and editor. Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois and Harvard University. He was best known as the fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine for forty years (1936-1975), where he worked with writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, Mavis Gallant, Frank O'Connor, Larry Woiwode, John O'Hara, Eudora Welty, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. As an editor Welty wrote of him: "For fiction writers, he was the headquarters."
Novels
Bright Center of Heaven (1934)
They Came Like Swallows (1937)
The Folded Leaf (1945)
Time Will Darken It (1948)
The Chateau (1961)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
They Came Like Swallows (1937)
The Folded Leaf (1945)
Time Will Darken It (1948)
The Chateau (1961)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
Collections
The Heavenly Tenants (1946)
Stories (1956)
The Old Man At the Railroad Crossing (1966)
Over By the River and Other Stories (1977)
Five Tales (1988)
Billie Dyer and Other Stories (1992)
All the Days and Nights (1995)
Mrs. Donald's Dog Bun (1998)
Early Novels and Stories (2008)
Stories (1956)
The Old Man At the Railroad Crossing (1966)
Over By the River and Other Stories (1977)
Five Tales (1988)
Billie Dyer and Other Stories (1992)
All the Days and Nights (1995)
Mrs. Donald's Dog Bun (1998)
Early Novels and Stories (2008)
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