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Earnest, spare, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- William Maxwell
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099560937
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About William Maxwell · 1908–2000
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.
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