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Maxwell, William

born Aug. 16, 1908, Lincoln, Ill., U.S.
died July 31, 2000, New York, N.Y.

American editor and author.

Maxwell taught English at the University of Illinois before joining the staff of The New Yorker magazine. In his 40 years there, he edited writers such as John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, Eudora Welty, and Mavis Gallant. He himself was the author of spare, evocative short stories and novels. Perhaps his best-known work is The Folded Leaf (1945), about the friendship of two small-town boys. Among his other works are the novels The Château (1961) and So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980) and the short-story collection All the Days and Nights (1995).

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▪ American author
original name  William Maxwell Keepers, Jr. 
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.

      Educated at the University of Illinois (B.A., 1930) and Harvard University (M.A., 1931), Maxwell taught English at the University of Illinois before joining the staff of The New Yorker (New Yorker, The) magazine, where he worked from 1936 to 1976, first in the art department and then as a fiction editor. Among the writers he edited were John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, Eudora Welty, and Mavis Gallant. Maxwell's first novel, Bright Center of Heaven, was published in 1934. They Came like Swallows (1937) tells how an epidemic of influenza affects a close family. The Folded Leaf (1945), perhaps Maxwell's best-known work, describes the friendship of two small-town boys through their adolescence and college years. In Time Will Darken It (1948) a long visit from relatives disrupts a family; in The Château (1961) American travelers encounter postwar French culture.

      Maxwell also published several collections of short stories, including The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales (1966), Over by the River, and Other Stories (1977), Billie Dyer and Other Stories (1992), and All the Days and Nights (1995). His 1980 novel So Long, See You Tomorrow returns to the subject of a friendship between two boys, this one disrupted by a parent's murder of his spouse, then suicide. Despite the subject, Maxwell avoids sensationalism, instead concentrating on the crime's emotional aftereffects.

Additional Reading
Barbara Burkhardt, William Maxwell: A Literary Life (2005).

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Источник: Maxwell, William

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