# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-keepers-maxwell-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:56:58.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-keepers-maxwell-jr"
name: "William Keepers Maxwell, Jr."
slug: "william-keepers-maxwell-jr"
description: "William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975. An editor devoted to his writers, Maxwell became a mentor and confidant to many authors."
tagline: "American novelist (1908-2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/William_Keepers_Maxwell_Jr.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-08-16"
deathDate: "2000-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.039204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maxwell_(scrittore)"
    title: "William Maxwell (scrittore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ويليام كيپيرس ماكسويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maxwell_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "William Maxwell (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maxwell_(American_writer)"
    title: "William Maxwell (American writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maxwell"
    title: "William Maxwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maxwell"
    title: "William Maxwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maxwell_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "William Maxwell (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2"
    title: "विलियम कीपर्स मैक्सवेल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1541271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump