William Maxwell Alecia Michel, Becca Oliver, Justin Salgot

Background Born in Lincoln, Illinois Born August 16, 1908 His mother died when he was 10 of the Influenza epidemic Went to live with his Aunt and Uncle Wrote stories about his life, and all of the stuff that happened to him.

His Father After his mother died,his father remarried Moved to Chicago, taking the family with them

Education Earned Bachelor's degree at University of Illinois 1930 Masters degree at Harvard 1931

Marriage Married to Emily Gilman 2 Daughters Katherine and Emily

Work! Insurance Executive Former Eva Blossom Blinn Taught in Illinois for 2 years Worked in an art department for $35.00

Career He was a member of the Department English, University of Illinois, From 1936, in the art department Then he became a fiction editor, New Yorker; retired 1976

Awards Friends of America writers award 1938 American Academy award 1958 William Dean Howells medal 1980 American Book award, for paperback 1982 Brandeis University Creative Arts Medal for Fiction 1984 Ivan Sandrof award, National Book Critic Circle 1994 Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1995 D.Litt.:University of Illinois 1973

Novels Bright Center of Heaven. New York, Harper, They Came like Swallows. New York, Harper, and London, Joseph, The Folded Leaf. New York, Harper, 1945; London, Faber, 1946.

Novels. Cont. Time Will Darken It. New York, Harper, 1948; London, Faber, The Chateau. New York, Knopf, So Long, See You Tomorrow. New York, Knopf, 1980; London, Secker and Warburg, 1989.

Short Stories Stories, with others. New York, Farrar Straus, 1956; as A Book of Stories, London, Gollancz, The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales. New York, Knopf, 1966.

Short Stories. Cont Over by the River and Other Stories. New York, Knopf, Five Tales. Omaha, Nebraska, Cummington Press, Billie Dyer and Other Stories. N.p., All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwell. New York, Knopf, 1995.

Uncollected Short Stories "Billie Dyer," in New Yorker, 15 May "Fable Begotten of an Echo of a Line of Verse by W.B. Yeats," in Antaeus (New York), Spring-Autumn 1990.

Death 91 years old when he died Died in his Manhattan home