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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,...

Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwell's literary work--with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow--as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D....