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William Maxwell

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
August 15 1908
Died
3030 07 20002000
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

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 . His award-winning fiction, which is increasingly seen as some of the most important of the 20th Century, has recurring themes of childhood, family, loss and lives changed quietly and irreparably. Much of his work is autobiographical, particularly concerning the loss of his mother when he was 10 years old growing up in the rural Midwest of America and the house where he lived at the time, which he referred to as the "Wunderkammer" or "Chamber of Wonders". He wrote of his loss "It happened too suddenly, with no warning, and we none of us could believe it or bear it... the beautiful, imaginative, protected world of my childhood swept away." Since his death in 2000 several works of biography have appeared, including A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations , My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell by Alec Wilkinson , and William Maxwell: A Literary Life by Barbara Burkhardt . In 2008 the Library of America published the first of two collections of William Maxwell, Early Novels and Stories, Christopher Carduff editor. His collected edition of William Maxwell's fiction, published to mark the writer's centenary, was completed by a second volume, Later Novels and Stories in the fall of 2008.'

William Maxwell

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
August 15 1908
Died
3030 07 20002000
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

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 . His award-winning fiction, which is increasingly seen as some of the most important of the 20th Century, has recurring themes of childhood, family, loss and lives changed quietly and irreparably. Much of his work is autobiographical, particularly concerning the loss of his mother when he was 10 years old growing up in the rural Midwest of America and the house where he lived at the time, which he referred to as the "Wunderkammer" or "Chamber of Wonders". He wrote of his loss "It happened too suddenly, with no warning, and we none of us could believe it or bear it... the beautiful, imaginative, protected world of my childhood swept away." Since his death in 2000 several works of biography have appeared, including A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations , My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell by Alec Wilkinson , and William Maxwell: A Literary Life by Barbara Burkhardt . In 2008 the Library of America published the first of two collections of William Maxwell, Early Novels and Stories, Christopher Carduff editor. His collected edition of William Maxwell's fiction, published to mark the writer's centenary, was completed by a second volume, Later Novels and Stories in the fall of 2008.'

Books from William Maxwell

So Long, See You Tomorrow

3.9/5 ( ratings)

They Came Like Swallows

4/5 ( ratings)

The Folded Leaf

4/5 ( ratings)

Time Will Darken It

4/5 ( ratings)

All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Music at Long Verney: Twenty Stories

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner & William Maxwell, 1938-1978

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Later Novels and Stories: The Château / So Long, See You Tomorrow / Stories and Improvisations 1957–1999

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Early Novels and Stories: Bright Center of Heaven / They Came Like Swallows / The Folded Leaf / Time Will Darken It / Stories 1938-1956

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Ancestors: A Family History

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Complete Poems (American Poetry Recovery Series)

3.1/5 ( ratings)

The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel

3.1/5 ( ratings)

SuperParenting: Child Rearing for the New Millennium

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Time Will Darken It; The Chateau; So Long, See You Tomorrow

3.1/5 ( ratings)

The Happiness of Getting It Down Right: Letters of Frank O'Connor and William Maxwell, 1945-1966

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Four in Hand: A Quartet of Novels

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Selected Stories

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Superparenting: Child Rearing for the New Millennium

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Letters

3.1/5 ( ratings)
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