William Maxwell

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A Literary Life

By: Barbara A. Burkhardt

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Paperback | 14 August 2008

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Known as a beloved, longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell worked closely with such legendary writers as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, and John Cheever. His own novels include They Came Like Swallows and the American Book Award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow, and many consider him to be one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Barbara Burkhardt's William Maxwell: A Literary Life represents the first major critical study of this Illinois writer's life and work.

Writing with an economy and elegance befitting her subject, Burkhardt addresses Maxwell's highly autobiographical fiction by skillfully interweaving his biography with her own critical interpretations. She contextualizes his fiction in terms of events including his mother's early death from influenza, his marriage, and the role of his psychoanalysis under the guidance of Theodor Reik. Drawing on a wide range of previously unavailable material, Burkhardt includes letters Maxwell received from authors such as Eudora Welty and Louise Bogan, excerpts from his unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, and her own interviews with Maxwell and key figures from his life, including John Updike, Roger Angell, New Yorker fiction editor Robert Henderson, and Maxwell's family and friends.

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''In deeply layered, supple, and clear prose, Burkhardt captures the dramas of Maxwell's life... Burkhardt explores Maxwell's fiction as though opening a door to a new world, a world as wide as the prairie skies that define Maxwell's imaginative universe.'' Chicago Tribune ''A valiant attempt to chart the relations between the stories Maxwell told and the stories he lived... William Maxwell rises splendidly to the occasion of his best novels and stories.'' New York Times Book Review ''Very capably opens discussion of a long-overlooked writer, and sheds much useful light on his coming-of-intellectual-age.'' Washington Post

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Literary Biographies Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Literary Studies of Fiction

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Credits	p. xiii
Meeting Maxwell	p. 1
Introduction	p. 7
Childhood: A Lifetime of Material, 1908-33	p. 19
First Fiction: Bright Center of Heaven, 1933-34	p. 48
Breakout Novel: They Came Like Swallows, 1934-38	p. 61
Mature Novelist I: The Folded Leaf, 1938-45	p. 79
Mature Novelist II: Time Will Darken It, 1945-48	p. 135
Turning Point: The New Yorker and The Chateau, 1948-61	p. 171
The Novelist as Historian: Ancestors, 1961-71	p. 205
Maxwell's New York, 1974-76	p. 219
The Masterwork: So Long, See You Tomorrow, 1972-80	p. 229
Summing Up: Late Short Works, 1980-92	p. 257
Conclusion: Stand, Accepting	p. 270
Notes	p. 275
Index	p. 297
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