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| Born | August 16, 1908 Lincoln, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | July 31, 2000 (aged 91) New York City, U.S. |
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| Education | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BA) Harvard University (MA) |
| Genre | Domestic realism |
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975. An editor devoted to his writers, Maxwell became a mentor and confidant to many authors.