The couple has two daughters.William Maxwell has come up on my radar three times in the last few months: once on John Self’s review of The Château, once on my blog when Jayne Anne Phillips recommended They Came Like Swallows, and then again in two parts on KevinfromCanada’s blog with reviews of Bright Center of Heaven and They Came Like Swallows. They met at the New Yorker when she applied for a job. William Maxwell has been married for over 50 years to the former Emily Noyes. He served as president of the National Institute of Arts and letters from 1969 to 1972. Maxwell has published six novels, several collections of short stories, a family history, and numerous book reviews. Salinger, Eudora Welty, John Updike, and Mary McCarthy in the New Yorker's pages. This was the era that saw the publication of the works of many accomplished writers, such as J. His years as an editor there, 1936 to 1976, coincided with what many believe are the magazine's finest.
He moved to New York City in 1936 and was hired by the New Yorker. Maxwell published his first novel, "Bright Center of Heaven," in 1934. Maxwell's own mother died in the epidemic when he was ten years old.
Two of Maxwell's novels, "They Came Like Swallows" (1937) and "So Long, See You Tomorrow" (1980), deal with characters who lose relatives in the influenza epidemic of 1918.
Most of his work takes place in simpler, gentler times in the small towns of the American Midwest. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award (1994), and the American Book Award (1982) for his novel "So Long, See You Tomorrow." Maxwell's fiction has been described as nostalgic. Born in Lincoln, Illinois in 1908, William Maxwell is one of America's more prominent writers.
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