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Speaking of Fresh Air, today's show is devoted to Maxwell and his protege,
Alec Wilkinson who just published his biography. On the air, Terry Gross
mentions Nabokov even though this bit from their site does not. (And I do
apologize again for sending you the materials on Master and Margarita
which were intended for my students! Obviously was doing things in too
much of a hurry... :-)
Friday: Alec Wilkinson, William Maxwell and Phyllis Diller
Writer Alec Wilkinson is the author of new memoir, My Mentor: A Young Mans
Friendship with William Maxwell (Houghton Mifflin). It's about his
relationship with writer and editor William Maxwell. Maxwell was fiction
editor for The New Yorker from 1936-1976 and worked with such authors as
J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Eudora Welty and scores of
others. Maxwell was the author of a number of novels, including Time Will
Darken It, and So Long, See You Tomorrow, as well as several short story
collections. He died at the age of 91 in August 2000. Wilkinson is a staff
writer for The New Yorker, and has been there since 1980. He's the author
of several books including, Midnights, Moonshine and Big Sugar. We'll
listen to a rebroadcast of a 1995 interview with Maxwell, and to a 2000
interview with Alec Wilkinson shortly after Maxwell's death.
Galya Diment
Alec Wilkinson who just published his biography. On the air, Terry Gross
mentions Nabokov even though this bit from their site does not. (And I do
apologize again for sending you the materials on Master and Margarita
which were intended for my students! Obviously was doing things in too
much of a hurry... :-)
Friday: Alec Wilkinson, William Maxwell and Phyllis Diller
Writer Alec Wilkinson is the author of new memoir, My Mentor: A Young Mans
Friendship with William Maxwell (Houghton Mifflin). It's about his
relationship with writer and editor William Maxwell. Maxwell was fiction
editor for The New Yorker from 1936-1976 and worked with such authors as
J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Eudora Welty and scores of
others. Maxwell was the author of a number of novels, including Time Will
Darken It, and So Long, See You Tomorrow, as well as several short story
collections. He died at the age of 91 in August 2000. Wilkinson is a staff
writer for The New Yorker, and has been there since 1980. He's the author
of several books including, Midnights, Moonshine and Big Sugar. We'll
listen to a rebroadcast of a 1995 interview with Maxwell, and to a 2000
interview with Alec Wilkinson shortly after Maxwell's death.
Galya Diment