The Writer as Illusionist
Uncollected & Unpublished Work
Published on 23. January 2024
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-56792-796-2 (ISBN)
Description
"As a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975, William Maxwell helped shaped several generations' sense of the literary short story. At the same time, Maxwell himself was also an exceptional novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. Given unique, unfettered access to Maxwell's private papers, Alec Wilkson--whose memoir My Mentor explores his twenty-five-year friendship with Maxwell--has gathered a ... collection of some of Maxwell's lesser-known and previously unpublished works of nonfiction and fiction"--
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Series
Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56792-796-2 (9781567927962)
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William Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois in 1908. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and after earning a master's at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, four collections of short fiction, an autobiographical memoir, a collection of literary essays and reviews, and two books for children. Maxwell served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975. He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000 at the age of ninety-one.