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William Maxwell : a literary life by Burkhardt, Barbara A. is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Best known as the longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell worked closely with greats like Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, John Cheever, and many others. His own novels include They Came Like Swallows and So Long, See You Tomorrow, and have become so highly acclaimed that many now consider him to be one of the twentieth-century's most important writers. Barbara A. Burkhardt's William Maxwell: A Literary Life represents the first major critical study of Maxwell's l
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Burkhardt, Barbara A.
- Publisher
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252030185
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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