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.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Bright Center of Heaven (1934)
They Came Like Swallows (1937)[a]
The Folded Leaf (1945)
Time Will Darken It (1948)
The Chateau (1961)
Ancestors (1971)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
The Outermost Dream (1989)
Short fiction – Collections
Stories (1956), with Jean Stafford, John Cheever and Daniel Fuchs
The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales (1966)
Over by the River, and Other Stories (1977)
Five Tales (1988)
Billie Dyer and Other Stories (1992)
All The Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwell (1995)
