William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.

1908 - 2000

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: American English, English

educated at: Harvard University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Senn High School

occupation: writer, novelist, journalist, essayist, contributing editor

award received: National Book Award, PEN/Malamud Award, National Book Award for Fiction, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

influenced by: Virginia Woolf, Louise Bogan

William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)