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	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maxwell's idyllic, small-town childhood was shattered at the age of 10 when his mother died in the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919.
		Maxwell was sent by his widower father to live in Bloomington with relatives, and the trauma of his mother's death remained a lifelong theme in the writer's work, particularly his early novel, "They Come Like Swallows".
		Maxwell bided his time, continuing work on his own collection of essays, short stories, and manuscripts until he was selected by Katherine White, a founding editor of The New Yorker and wife of author E.B. White to fill a vacancy in the publisher's fiction department.
	obits.com /maxwellw.htm (601 words)

	The Architecture of Edward & W.S. Maxwell: Biography
		The significant aspects of William Maxwell's experience with Winslow and Wetherel is that the firm specialized in commercial and hotel architecture, and both principals had had training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
		William's design for the Saskatchewan Legislative Buildings is a grand organization of principal elements with their fundamental priorities supported by orderly ranks of ancillaries, and where volume, geometry, and ornament express the idea of the building.
		William was considered shy and retiring as compared with his outgoing brother, but among men he knew well and respected there was a close friendship based on mutual affection.
	cac.mcgill.ca /maxwells/willbio2.htm (3659 words)

	The Architecture of Edward & W.S. Maxwell: Library
		William's daughter, Mary Maxwell Rabbani, remembers her father as "a man whose interest in every aspect of artistic expression in all ages and cultures was universal and profound" and who "collected antiques as well as books, but later in life confined his collecting instincts to rare and limited editions mostly illustrated by famous modern artists".
		William Maxwell amassed an important collection of Japanese prints, gleaned clippings on the decorative arts from hundreds of periodicals, and developed a rich and broad-ranging personal library.
		William's acumen as a bibliophile was matched by his desire to keep the office collection accessible; as it grew, he drew up a dictionary catalogue by author, title and subject, as well as an alphanumerical shelflist.
	cac.mcgill.ca /maxwells/introlib1.htm (2148 words)

	William Hamilton Maxwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Hamilton Maxwell (1792 - 1850) was a Scots-Irish novelist.
		He was born at Newry, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
		Maxwell also wrote a Life of the Duke of Wellington (1839-1841), and a History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (1845).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hamilton_Maxwell (155 words)

	SIR WILLIAM STIRLING-MAXWELL - LoveToKnow Article on SIR WILLIAM STIRLING-MAXWELL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scottish man of letters and virtuoso, the only son of Archibald Stirling of Keir, Perthshire, and of Elizabeth, third daughter of Sir John Maxwell, seventh baronet of P0110k, Renfrewshire, was born at Kenmure, near Glasgow, on the 8th of March, 18I8.
		William Stirling was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1839.
		Having succeeded his father as proprietor of Keir in 1847, when he was made vice-lieutenant of Perthshire, he in 1852 entered parliament as member for that county; and he was several times re-elected.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STIRLING_MAXWELL_SIR_WILLIAM.htm (427 words)

	Barbara Burkhardt - William Maxwell A Literary Life - Author Interview
		I delved through the records myself to find the accounts Maxwell had used to tell the story of the 1920s scandal: the love affair between a tenant farmer’s wife and her husband’s best friend, who is shot and killed while milking one morning.
		She wrote Maxwell that the table would have been “good in the Beulah,” the fictional hotel in her novel, The Ponder Heart, which appeared in The New Yorker before it was published as a novel dedicated to Maxwell.
		A: Maxwell called Illinois his “imagination's home.” He remembered the town of Lincoln as a changeless world, the way it was in 1923 when he left at the age of fourteen to join his remarried father and family in Chicago.
	www.aliterarylife.com /Interview.asp (2342 words)

	WILLIAM MAXWELL, 5TH EARL OF NITHSDALE - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM MAXWELL, 5TH EARL OF NITHSDALE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He became famous by his loyalty to the royalist tradition of his family, and by the heroism of his wife Winifred, daughter of William Herbert, 1st marquess of Powis.
		After becoming earl in 1698 he served the exiled house of Stuart in secret, was suspected as a Jacobite conspirator, and was much molested on that account.
		Their son, William Maxwell, regained the possession of the family property after his fathers death in 1744, since the government could only confiscate his fathers life-interest; but the title was forfeited, and he died childless.
	1911encyclopedia.org /N/NI/NITHSDALE_WILLIAM_MAXWELL_5TH_EARL_OF.htm (473 words)

	Profile
		Maxwell's first assignment with the Chicago Tribune was covering court proceedings at the county and federal buildings, along with handling the Tribune leased wire.
		Maxwell stated that the formula for newspaper success was obsessive curiosity, hard work, and the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
		Maxwell used his influence in 1955 to require the State Department to release the previously secret report on the Yalta conference after the department had attempted to leak the texts exclusively to The New York Times.
	www.depauw.edu /library/archives/ijhof/inductees/maxwellw.htm (1338 words)

	Anteroom: William Maxwell: Editor & Author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maxwell, who died several years ago, was a prolific writer as well as editor to writers as seminal as J.D. Salinger and John Cheever.
		While Maxwell is often referred to as a writer's writer in the sense that his work is not widely read outside of literary circles, Savage believes that the new biography may raise the editor and author's profile to a wider audience.
		Burkhardt explores Maxwell's fiction as though opening a door to a new world, a world as wide as the prairie skies that define Maxwell's imaginative universe, and she deftly integrates her analysis of Maxwell's novels and stories with his life story.
	www.mitchmajor.com /2005/06/william-maxwell-editor-author.html (408 words)

	Random House for High School Teachers \| Catalog \| So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maxwell, long one of America's most distinguished authors, writes with an especial poignancy concerning the vulnerability and anguish of childhood and the difficult, often forced emergence into adulthood.
		William Maxwell was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois, a town he has returned to again and again in his fiction, including So Long, See You Tomorrow.
		Maxwell attended the University of Illinois and did graduate work at Harvard, then spent some time teaching before turning permanently to a writing career which has produced six novels, three collections of short stories, a memoir, a collection of essays, and a children's book.
	www.randomhouse.com /highschool/catalog/display.pperl?0679767207&view=tg (2736 words)

	Barbara A. Burkhardt / William Maxwell
		She also presents Maxwell’s own views on his life and work, which he shared with her in conversations and correspondence over a number of years.
		A close acquaintance of William Maxwell, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she organized his correspondence for the Maxwell archives.
		As a novelist and short story writer, Maxwell depicted the Midwest, especially his hometown of Lincoln, Ill., in fiction distinguished by its attention to the emotional depths of seemingly quotidian domestic life, as well as its stylistic beauty and subtlety.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s05/burkhardt.html (702 words)

	The Baha'i Community of Canada : La communaute baha'ie du Canada
		William Sutherland Maxwell was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1874.
		Edward Maxwell graduated as an engineer from McGill University, but Sutherland Maxwell went to Boston at the age of 17, and the extraordinary ability he had for both drawing and design soon became apparent, and he was given ornamental details of important buildings to work up into their final form.
		Sutherland Maxwell understood and was deeply touched; he said, "I did not do it all alone; there were so many others who helped." Such humility was typical of the man. He passed away in the spring of 1952.
	www.ca.bahai.org /main.cfm?sid=66 (836 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Maxwell, Dr William (1760 — 1834)
		Second son of James Maxwell of Kirkconnell, he was educated at the Jesuit College at Dinant in France, and became a doctor.
		Maxwell attended Burns during his last illness, diagnosing the stabbing agonies of endocarditis as 'flying gout' and prescribing sea-bathing in country quarters and horseriding; 'cures' which probably hastened Burns's end.
		Shortly before his death, the poet presented Maxwell with his pair of Excise pistols, which are now in the Museum of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries.
	www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/MaxwellDrWilliam17601511834.591.shtml (498 words)

	The Lineage of the Chiefs of Maxwell
		The chiefdom of the name Maxwell lay with the Lords Maxwell and the Earls of Nithsdale up until the death of William Maxwell the fifth and last Earl who died as a Jacobite exile in Rome in 1744.
		Her grandson, William Constable Maxwell obtained an act of Parliament whereby he and all the descendents of the body of the fifth Earl of Nithsdale were restored to the blood.
		Interestingly the title of Lord Maxwell had been overlooked and omitted from the original attainder on the fifth Earl and in theory could be claimed by a new chief!.
	www.maxwellsociety.com /Chief/lineage.htm (557 words)

	Missed Connections - William Maxwell
		Prominent in much of Maxwell's fiction is the missed connection, a charged moment with the potential to change events ever after, that often haunts characters for the rest of their lives.
		Maxwell himself returns time and again to the same small towns, the same frail boys, and the moments of friendship and joy which help transcend grief from the loss of one's mother.
		Maxwell actually improved with age; his career is a paradox; he began as a novelist, producing three books within a scope of a dozen years, then wrote a children's book, The Heavenly Tenants.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/4152/connections.html (6543 words)

	The Claimants
		William being the last male descendant of his great‑grandfather, John, third Earl of Nithsdale, the title should have reverted on his death to a descendant of James Maxwell of Breconside, John’s next brother.
		William, the next son of Charles Maxwell, the upholsterer, was a merchant, and was living in Bristol in 1761.
		The next to 'declare' were the children of William Maxwell the New Zealand émigré in the 1920's but evidence of William's birth date was available thus dismissing the claim that he was the son of Mary Douglas, the first wife of Sir Charles.
	www.maxwellsociety.com /Chief/claimants.htm (3198 words)

	Amazon.com: My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell: Books: Alec Wilkinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maxwell was Wilkinson's writing mentor from the time he decided to become a writer until the end of Maxwell's life.
		Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois; his young life changed forever when he was ten years old and his mother died.
		Kirk Wilkinson was brusque and outgoing; Maxwell was sensitive and introspective.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618123016?v=glance (1688 words)

	James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
		(Maxwell was the family name which his father was required to adopt, by the terms of a legal entailment, in order to inherit the estate).
		Maxwell consumed these subjects eagerly, and his letters and notes from this period (November 1847 to October 1850) clearly demonstrate an extraordinary thirst for knowledge.
		Maxwell suggested that magnetic action could be explained by considering the lines of magnetic force around a magnet as if they were vortices within a continuous fluid medium.
	www.thecore.nus.edu.sg /landow/victorian/science/maxwell1.html (2080 words)

	William Maxwell -- author of Time Will Darken It and The Folded Leaf
		Maxwell worked at the New Yorker from 1936 to '76, a time when the magazine exerted a formidable influence on the short story and published the work of such masters as O'Hara, Nabokov, Updike and Cheever.
		Maxwell makes a good case for her work without ever overstating it, and draws a vivid picture of the writer as both talented and troubled.
		Maxwell noted that John Mosher, the New Yorker's movie critic a half-century ago, would also write very funny short stories, labeled "casuals" in the brisk New Yorker way.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/4152/maxwell.html (1495 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: They Came Like Swallows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Maxwell, longtime fiction editor for the New Yorker, had a prolific writing career that spanned seven decades.
		Maxwell should be ranked with the greatest of 20th century American authors; his relative obscurity is a mystery to me. This is my favorite of his novels.
		William Maxwell's short novel is a snapshot of a quintessential American family living during an interesting time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/067977257X (818 words)

	Powell's Books - My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell by Alec Wilkinson
		At twenty-four, Alec Wilkinson decided that he wanted to write, so his father asked for the help of his closest friend, William Maxwell, widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and an editor of fiction for forty years at The New Yorker.
		His experience with Maxwell over the course of twenty-five years he takes as the occasion for a profound and moving reflection on writing, wisdom, fatherhood, love, courage, dignity, and the end that awaits us all.
		Maxwell lived a long life and died a good death — a death that was as "good" as any death can be.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0618123016-0 (426 words)

	CNN.com - William Maxwell, author and New Yorker editor, dies - August 1, 2000
		NEW YORK (AP) -- William Maxwell, the revered editor of such New Yorker writers as J.D. Salinger and John Cheever and himself an accomplished man of letters, died at his home Monday.
		In person, the slightly built Maxwell was the very image of the vintage New Yorker staffer: learned, but self-effacing; gracious, but not effusive; dignified, but not stuffy -- the kind of man who would laugh out loud at a Marx Brothers movie.
		Maxwell's life hardly ranked with Hemingway's for manly adventure, but in his mind he endured conflicts as challenging as any bullfight.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/08/01/obit.maxwell.ap (732 words)

	Maxwell Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maxwell was then urged to enter the hotel business again and he built an addition to his private dwelling which he operated as the Maxwell House and only recently disposed of the property, though the hotel has not been under his management for several years.
		Maxwell eleven children were born, three dying in infancy, and John O. at the age of 28, Jesse N.
		Maxwell witnessed the execution of the Col Davenport's murderers, he being one of the guards, and it was his sister and Mrs.
	members.cox.net /katmens/maxwell.htm (5193 words)

	CD Baby: WILLIAM MAXWELL: The Picture Show
		William Maxwell began his musical studies on classical guitar at the age of six.
		William produced three albums, Remembrance, Horizons, and Q in his own studio before embarking on a two year stint as chief engineer at Estudio Morelia in Mexico.
		William Maxwell, a delightful personality, is obviously a very talented and versatile musician.
	www.cdbaby.com /wmaxwell (477 words)

	Amazon.com: The Element of Lavishness: Letters of William Maxwell and Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1938-1978: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		WarnerDpoet, novelist, and short story writerDfirst came to Maxwell's attention when he read her narrative poem "Opus 7." It was laterDas a copywriter, and before his reign as the renowned editor of The New Yorker (the magazine published 153 of Warner's short stories)Dthat they began their remarkable correspondence.
		Sylvia Townsend Warner counted herself very lucky to have William Maxwell as her New Yorker editor and readers of this volume of their correspondence would agree Warner wrote 153 stories between 1936 and 1977 and found a devoted and discering fan in Maxwell.
		Maxwell, who lived with his wife and two daughters in NYC, is also good with domestic detail and affecting and funny observations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582431183?v=glance (1538 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Maxwell
		Fifth Earl of Nithsdale (Lord Nithsdale signed as Nithsdaill) and fourteenth Lord Maxwell, b.
		His mother, a daughter of the House of Douglas, a clever energetic woman, educated him in sentiments of devotion to the Catholic faith and of loyalty to the House of Stuart, for which his family was famous.
		When he was about twenty-three, Lord Nithsdale visited the French Court to do homage to King James, and there met and wooed Lady Winifred Herbert, youngest daughter of William, first Marquis of Powis.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10081b.htm (324 words)

	MSJ - William Maxwell-Cardinal Points
		A solo album from Tempest bassist William Maxwell, this disc covers quite a bit of musical range.
		Leanings which can be heard in different points of the CD range from Genesis to Rush to Bruford Levin Upper Extremities and Tony Levin solo work.
		Maxwell is joined on this disc by his friend Michael Manring, among others.
	www.musicstreetjournal.com /wmaxwell.htm (346 words)

	William Maxwell Gaines -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The American playwright Maxwell Anderson believed in the dignity of humankind and the importance of democracy.
		The U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright Maxwell Bodenheim contributed to the development of the modernist movement in American poetry but is best remembered for his long career as a personality in literary bohemia.
		William Harvey's studies were the beginnings of the science of physiology.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9000817?tocId=9000817 (715 words)

	AllRefer.com - Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr. (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		In his fiction the discreet and courtly Maxwell often handled such traditional themes as growing up and the impact of death with a deft, spare, and gentle realism.
		Maxwell also wrote children's stories and a memoir, Ancestors (1972).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MaxwellWl.html (285 words)

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