Burkhardt, B: William Maxwell

"Maxwell gets his due in this combination of biography and critical study . . . this solid book will work as a guarantee against future neglect."--ALA Booklist "In deeply layered, supple, and clear prose, Burkhardt captures the dramas of Maxwell's life. . . . Burkhardt explores Maxwell's fiction as though opening a door to a new world, a world as wide as the prairie skies that define Maxwell's imaginative universe."--Chicago Tribune "A valiant attempt to chart the relations between the stories Maxwell told and the stories he lived. . . . William Maxwell rises splendidly to the occasion of his best novels and stories."--New York Times "Very capably opens discussion of a long-overlooked writer, and sheds much useful light on his coming-of-intellectual-age."--Washington Post "Required reading for any devoted Maxwell enthusiast."--Publishers Weekly "William Maxwell is a timely and important book, created out of Barbara Burkhardt's perceptive vision of the man and his work, her painstaking scholarship, and her unique access to Maxwell himself."--Penelope Niven, author of the award-winning Carl Sandburg: A Biography