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092			_aMAXWELL, W. _bM465
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMaxwell, William, _d1908-2000, _eauthor. _9106899
240	1	0	_aWriter as illusionist (Compilation)
245	1	4	_aThe writer as illusionist : _buncollected & unpublished work / _cWilliam Maxwell ; selected and introduced by Alec Wilkinson.
263			_a2310
264		1	_aBoston : _bGodine, _c2024.
264		4	_c©2024
300			_axix, 224 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"An illuminating celebration of an author widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's great unsung heroes of American literature As a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975, William Maxwell helped shaped several generations' sense of the literary short story. At the same time, Maxwell himself was also an exceptional novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. Given unique, unfettered access to Maxwell's private papers, Alec Wilkson--whose memoir My Mentor explores his twenty-five-year friendship with Maxwell--has gathered a stunning and reveling collection of some of Maxwell's lesser-known and previously unpublished works of nonfiction and fiction. The Writer as illusionist includes biographical sketches; remembrances of fellow authors, such as the poet Louise Bogan and short story writer Maeve Brennan; a 1941 nonfiction piece about Bermuda in 1941 that was the only piece of long reporting Maxwell ever published in The New Yorker; and Maxwell's thoughts on the craft of writing, many of them made privately. While Maxwell often said he never kept a journal because anything worth writing about was something a writer would remember, The Writer as Illusionist proves otherwise: included are many notes from his private journals, including some that became parts of his revered novels, such as The Folded Leaf. Re-reading Maxwell's work leads Wilkinson to think 'I am still often amazed-at the subtlety of the art, the depth of what he saw, at his capacity for dramatizing situations that require a rare hand and eye.' Maxwell passed away in 2000 at the age of ninety-one. The Writer as Illusionist is a celebration of his legacy in American letters"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_tPart I. Childhood, early years -- _tPart II. Notes and remarks on writing -- _tPart III. Criticism, tributes, memorials -- _tPart IV. Private life.
600	1	0	_aMaxwell, William, _d1908-2000. _9106899
600	1	0	_aMaxwell, William, _d1908-2000 _xFriends and associates.
650		0	_aAuthorship. _928502
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aDiaries. _2lcgft _9388743
655		7	_aLiterary criticism. _2lcgft _9389769
655		7	_aEssays. _2lcgft _95184
700	1		_aWilkinson, Alec, _d1952- _eeditor, _ewriter of introduction. _926323
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999			_c379997 _d379997