He talks about his school years, his friends – and most of all, he bares all of his childhood feelings from his now 50-year cushion of safe distance in the future. He talks about their home, and how more changes happened once his father re-married. He vividly recalls where they (his father, brothers and himself) lived and how they coped with their loss in their individual ways. In his memoirs, he talks about his childhood in Lincoln – about losing his mother to the influenza outbreak of 1918. The narrator, an elderly man whose boyhood was scarred by a horrendous event, attempts to make sense of it all – and to make amends, as he tells it – 50 years down the road during the course of writing his memoirs. My heart was sliced to ribbons by this story. His collected edition of William Maxwell's fiction, published to mark the writer's centenary, was completed by a second volume, Later Novels and Stories in the fall of 2008.' In 2008 the Library of America published the first of two collections of William Maxwell, Early Novels and Stories, Christopher Carduff editor.

Norton & Co., 2004), My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell by Alec Wilkinson (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002), and William Maxwell: A Literary Life by Barbara Burkhardt (University of Illinois Press, 2005).

the beautiful, imaginative, protected world of my childhood swept away.' Since his death in 2000 several works of biography have appeared, including A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations (W. He wrote of his loss 'It happened too suddenly, with no warning, and we none of us could believe it or bear it. Much of his work is autobiographical, particularly concerning the loss of his mother when he was 10 years old growing up in the rural Midwest of America and the house where he lived at the time, which he referred to as the 'Wunderkammer' or 'Chamber of Wonders'. His award-winning fiction, which is increasingly seen as some of the most important of the 20th Century, has recurring themes of childhood, family, loss and lives changed quietly and irreparably. Maxwell wrote six highly acclaimed novels, a number of short stories and essays, children's stories, and a memoir, Ancestors (1972). He studied at the University of Illinois and Harvard University. was an American novelist, and fiction editor at the New Yorker. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Maxwell so long see you tomorrow