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William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was born on 16 August, 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois, U.S., is an American journalist. Discover William Keepers Maxwell Jr.'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Occupation Editor novelist short story writer
Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 16 August, 1908
Birthday 16 August
Birthplace Lincoln, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 31 July, 2000
Died Place New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1908

William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist.

Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois, on August 16, 1908.

His parents were William Keepers Maxwell and Eva Blossom (née Blinn) Maxwell.

1918

During the 1918 flu epidemic, the 10-year-old Maxwell became ill and survived, but his mother died.

After his mother's death, the boy was sent to live with an aunt and uncle in Bloomington, Illinois.

His father remarried, and young Maxwell joined him in Chicago.

He attended Senn High School.

1930

He received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Illinois in 1930 where he was class salutatorian, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, poetry editor of The Daily Illini, and a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.

Maxwell earned an A.M. at Harvard University.

Maxwell taught English briefly at the University of Illinois where he served as faculty advisor to his fraternity and published an article about it in the fraternity's magazine before moving to New York.

1936

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.

Maxwell was best known for being a fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine for thirty-nine years (1936–1975), where he worked with writers such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, Mavis Gallant, Frank O'Connor, Larry Woiwode, Maeve Brennan, John O'Hara, Eudora Welty, Shirley Hazzard, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Welty wrote of him as an editor: "For fiction writers, he was the headquarters."

1968

In 1968, Maxwell was elected president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Maxwell was a friend and correspondent of the English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, and was her literary executor.

1972

He also wrote six novels, short stories and essays, children's stories, and a memoir, Ancestors (1972).

His fiction has recurring themes of childhood, family, loss, and lives changed quietly and irreparably.

Much of his work is autobiographical, particularly concerning the loss of his mother when he was 10 years old and growing up in rural Midwestern United States.

After the flu epidemic, young Maxwell had to move away from his house, which he referred to as the "Wunderkammer" or "Chamber of Wonders".

He spoke of his loss, "It happened too suddenly, with no warning, and we none of us could believe it or bear it ... the beautiful, imaginative, protected world of my childhood swept away."

1986

Emily Maxwell was an accomplished painter, winning the Medal of Honor in 1986 from the National Association of Women Artists.

She also reviewed children's books for The New Yorker.

The couple were married for 55 years.

Maxwell died eight days after his wife.

They had two daughters, Katherine and artist and curator Emily Brooke ("Brookie") Maxwell.

2000

Since his death in 2000, several biographical works about him have been published, including A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations (W. W. Norton & Co., 2004), My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell by Alec Wilkinson (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002), and William Maxwell: A Literary Life by Barbara Burkhardt (University of Illinois Press, 2005).

William Maxwell died on July 31, 2000, in New York City.

The epitaph marking his memorial gravestone in Oregon reads, "The Work is the Message".

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2001

He edited a volume of her letters, and a further volume of his correspondence with her, The Element of Lavishness, was published in 2001.

2008

In 2008, the Library of America published the first of two collections of works by Maxwell, Early Novels and Stories, edited by Christopher Carduff.

His collected edition of Maxwell's fiction, published to mark the writer's centenary, was completed by publication of the second volume, Later Novels and Stories, in the fall of 2008.

William Maxwell married Emily Gilman Noyes of Portland, Oregon.