A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations - Hardcoverby Charles Baxter (Editor), Michael Collier (Editor), Edward Hirsch (Editor) William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him both the man and his work offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this volume, that "bring him back to life, right there in front of us." Alec Wilkinson