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William Keepers Maxwell Jr.

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William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. [1]

41 relations: Alec Wilkinson, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Anton Chekhov, Benjamin Cheever, Bloomington, Illinois, Chicago, Editing, Eudora Welty, Frank O'Connor, Harvard University, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, John O'Hara, John Updike, Larry Woiwode, Library of America, Lincoln, Illinois, List of essayists, Louise Bogan, Maeve Brennan, Mavis Gallant, Memoir, Midwestern United States, National Book Foundation, New York City, Novelist, PEN/Malamud Award, Senn High School, Shirley Hazzard, Short story, Sigma Pi, So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel), Spanish flu, The Daily Illini, The Heavenly Tenants, The New Yorker, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Zodiac.

Alec Wilkinson

Alec Wilkinson (born 1952) is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Benjamin Cheever

Benjamin Hale Cheever (born October 8, 1948) is an American writer and editor.

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Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.

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Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor (born Michael Francis O'Donovan; 17 September 1903 – 10 March 1966) was an Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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J. D. Salinger

Jerome David "J.

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John Cheever

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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John O'Hara

John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and later became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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Larry Woiwode

Larry Alfred Woiwode (born October 30, 1941) is an American writer who lives in North Dakota, where he has been the state's Poet Laureate since 1995.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Lincoln, Illinois

Lincoln is a city in Logan County, Illinois, United States.

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List of essayists

This is a list of essayists—people notable for their essay-writing.

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Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet.

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Maeve Brennan

Maeve Brennan (January 6, 1917 – November 1, 1993) was an Irish short story writer and journalist.

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Mavis Gallant

Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant,, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France.

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Memoir

A memoir (US: /ˈmemwɑːr/; from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in the subject's life.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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PEN/Malamud Award

The PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading honors "excellence in the art of the short story", and is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

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Senn High School

Senn High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Sigma Pi

Sigma Pi (ΣΠ) is an international social collegiate fraternity founded in 1897 at Vincennes University.

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So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)

So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell.

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Spanish flu

The Spanish flu (January 1918 – December 1920), also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.

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The Daily Illini

The Daily Illini, commonly known as the DI, is a student-run newspaper that has been published for the community of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1871.

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The Heavenly Tenants

The Heavenly Tenants is a fantasy by William Maxwell.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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Zodiac

The zodiac is an area of the sky that extends approximately 8° north or south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Keepers_Maxwell_Jr.

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