William Maxwell : a literary life / Barbara Burkhardt.
William Maxwell : a literary life / Barbara Burkhardt.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.
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N813.54/712
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 308 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
"Three quarters of the material" he would need : the early life -- Modernist beginnings, 1931-1934 : the early poetry and bright -- Center of heaven -- They came like swallows -- Mature novelist, 1938-1948 : the folded leaf -- Time will darken it -- New directions, 1948-1961 :Tthe chateau -- Ancesto...
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
c2005.
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"Drawing on a wide range of previously unavailable material, Burkhardt includes letters written to Maxwell by authors such as Eudora Welty and Louise Bogan, excerpts from Maxwell s unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, and her own interviews with key figures from his life, including John Updike, Roger Angell, New Yorker fiction editor Robert...
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William Maxwell : a literary life / Barbara Burkhardt.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-296) and index.
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N813.54/712
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74VKd54NWgOg
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ISBN
0252030184 (Cloth : alk. paper)
9780252030185 (Cloth : alk. paper)
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813.54
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991020121149702626
