Charles (Hrsg.) Baxter

A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations

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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; a… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Collier, Michael (Hrsg.) / Hirsch, Edward (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-393-05771-3
EAN: 9780393057713
Produktnummer: 9546696
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 234 S.
Masse: H23.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.5 cm 522 g
Gewicht: 522

Über den Autor

Charles Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota. Michael Collier's The Ledge was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of Maryland and is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Edward Hirsch has published seven books of poems, including Special Orders. He lives in New York City.