William Keepers Maxwell Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1908)

William Keepers Maxwell Jr.

American journalist

William Keepers Maxwell Jr. 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…