Perhaps best known as a fiction editor at The New Yorker for more than forty years, William Maxwell has enjoyed an even longer career as a writer. Since the publication of his first book, Bright Cente...
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For six decades William Maxwell's fiction took as its subject the vanished world of early-twentieth-century Midwestern life. He was no nostalgic archaeologist, however, unearthing sentimental relics f...
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