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- catalog abstract "Three generations of writers celebrate a master whose life and work continue to reverberate in contemporary letters. William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him - both the man and his work - offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this volume, that "bring him back to life, right there in front of us." Alec Wilkinson writes of Maxwell as mentor; Edward Hirsch remembers him in old age; Charles Baxter illuminates the magnificent novel So Long, See You Tomorrow; Ben Cheever recalls Maxwell and his own father; Donna Tartt vividly describes Maxwell's kindness to herself as a first novelist; and Michael Collier admires him as a supreme literary correspondent. Other appreciations include insightful pieces by Alice Munro, Anthony Hecht, a poem by John Updike, and a brief tribute from Paula Fox. Ending this splendid collection is Maxwell himself, in the unpublished speech "The Writer as Illusionist." -- Book jacket.".
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- catalog contributor b13283321.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "Stolen (poem) / John Updike 17 -- Mr. Maxwell / Donna Tartt 19 -- Maxwell / Alice Munro 34 -- A Story in the Dark / Paula Fox 48 -- The Dog Gets to Dover: William Maxwell as a Correspondent / Michael Collier 53 -- Chance / Alec Wilkinson 71 -- The Breath of Life / Charles Baxter 86 -- Something to Read When He Dies / Benjamin Cheever 107 -- William Maxwell / Shirley Hazzard 117 -- Time Will Darken It / Anthony Hecht 123 -- Angel Child / Ellen Bryant Voigt 135 -- Grace / Richard Bausch 161 -- Reading War and Peace to William Maxwell / Annabel Davis-Goff 170 -- Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man / Edward Hirsch 187 -- The Writer as Illusionist / William Maxwell 208.".
- catalog description "Three generations of writers celebrate a master whose life and work continue to reverberate in contemporary letters. William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him - both the man and his work - offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this volume, that "bring him back to life, right there in front of us." Alec Wilkinson writes of Maxwell as mentor; Edward Hirsch remembers him in old age; Charles Baxter illuminates the magnificent novel So Long, See You Tomorrow; Ben Cheever recalls Maxwell and his own father; Donna Tartt vividly describes Maxwell's kindness to herself as a first novelist; and Michael Collier admires him as a supreme literary correspondent. Other appreciations include insightful pieces by Alice Munro, Anthony Hecht, a poem by John Updike, and a brief tribute from Paula Fox. Ending this splendid collection is Maxwell himself, in the unpublished speech "The Writer as Illusionist." -- Book jacket.".
- catalog extent "234 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0393057712".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton & Co.,".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 B 22".
- catalog subject "Authors and publishers United States.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Editors United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Literature publishing United States.".
- catalog subject "Maxwell, William, 1908-2000 Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Maxwell, William, 1908-2000 Friends and associaties.".
- catalog subject "Maxwell, William, 1908-2000.".
- catalog subject "New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)".
- catalog subject "PS3525.A9464 Z97 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Stolen (poem) / John Updike 17 -- Mr. Maxwell / Donna Tartt 19 -- Maxwell / Alice Munro 34 -- A Story in the Dark / Paula Fox 48 -- The Dog Gets to Dover: William Maxwell as a Correspondent / Michael Collier 53 -- Chance / Alec Wilkinson 71 -- The Breath of Life / Charles Baxter 86 -- Something to Read When He Dies / Benjamin Cheever 107 -- William Maxwell / Shirley Hazzard 117 -- Time Will Darken It / Anthony Hecht 123 -- Angel Child / Ellen Bryant Voigt 135 -- Grace / Richard Bausch 161 -- Reading War and Peace to William Maxwell / Annabel Davis-Goff 170 -- Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man / Edward Hirsch 187 -- The Writer as Illusionist / William Maxwell 208.".
- catalog title "A William Maxwell portrait : memories and appreciations / edited by Charles Baxter, Michael Collier, and Edward Hirsch.".
- catalog type "text".