William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican novelist (1908-2000)
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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.
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanAlso won William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Ellen GilchristAlso won National Book Award for Fiction
Peter Matthew Hillsman TaylorAlso won PEN/Malamud Award
Nathan EnglanderAlso won PEN/Malamud Award
J. F. PowersAlso won National Book Award for FictionJames Gould CozzensAlso won William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and LettersAbout this person
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United StatesCategory
Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 2000 · aged 91
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