Ancestors
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1971).
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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with nominal wear. Novel set in Ohio in 1818. Long Inscription by Maxwell (signed "W.M.") to an important editor, discussing how he arrived at the tone of the book, in part: "When I was young I realized that the first-person narrative is the hardest of all to manage, and that I wasn't up to it. With this book it suddenly became natural to me – I kept thinking of E.B. White as I wrote it. His relaxed backhand..." A nice inscription.
Item #96554
ISBN: 0394435222
William Maxwell
birth name: William Keepers Jr. Maxwell
born: 8/16/1908
died: 7/31/2000
Biography
American author of spare, evocative short stories and novels about small-town life in the American Midwest. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore