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Bio

(1908-2000) Novelist. William Maxwell moved to New York City in 1936 and worked as editor for The New Yorker magazine until 1976.

Full Name

William Keepers Maxwell Jr

Locations

(Unknown)

Author's Timeline


1908

BIRTH

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. was born in Lincoln, Illinois in 1908.

1934

LITWORK

Bright Center of Heaven


Novel.

1936

RESIDENCE

William Maxwell moved to New York City in 1936 and worked as editor for The New Yorker magazine until 1976.

1937

LITWORK

They Came like Swallows


Novel.

1945

LITWORK

The Folded Leaf


Novel.

1946

LITWORK

The Heavenly Tenants


Short story collection.

1948

LITWORK

Time Will Darken It


Novel.

1961

LITWORK

The Ch��teau


Novel.

1972

LITWORK

Ancestors


Memoir.

1980

LITWORK

So Long, See You Tomorrow


Novel.

1989

LITWORK

The Outermost Dream


Essay collection.

1995

LITWORK

All the Days and Nights


Short story collection.

2000

DEATH

William Maxwell died in New York, New York in 2000.

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