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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell - rerun

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The Last Novel by William Maxwell

William Maxwell was the editor of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and J.D. Salinger. Eudora Welty described him as if you were a writer of fiction, "he was HQ" His mother died in 1918 when he was 10 years old; his work is always going to be about his childhood. He married late, had two daughters but suffered terribly after her death.

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