So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)

So Long, See You Tomorrow
First edition[a]
AuthorWilliam Maxwell
Cover artistBrookie Maxwell[a]
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe New Yorker (magazine)
Knopf (book)
Publication date
1979 (magazine)
1980 (book)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages135
ISBN0-394-50835-1

So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine in October 1979 in two parts.[1][2] It was published as a book the following year by Alfred A. Knopf.

It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal,[3] and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award.[4][b] It was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.[5] Michael Ondaatje described it as "one of the great books of our age".[6] In 2016, it was included in a Parade Magazine list of the "75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years".[7]

The novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction".[8]


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  1. ^ "So Long, See You Tomorrow, Part One". The New Yorker. October 1, 1979. pp. 34–102. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
  2. ^ "So Long, See You Tomorrow, Part Two". The New Yorker. October 8, 1979. pp. 40–99. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
  3. ^ American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners Archived 2015-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "National Book Awards – 1982". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  5. ^ "Fiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  6. ^ front cover of 1997 Harvill Press p/b edition
  7. ^ Patchett, Ann (24 June 2016). "The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years". Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  8. ^ Burkhardt, Barbara (1994). William Maxwell: A selected critical biography (Ph.D.). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hdl:2142/23720.