William Maxwell

The story is about a man, a father, who lived a completely different life in his diaries than he did in reality. He kept his diary for his own pleasure. He…

The writer's father died in Lincoln, Illinois, in 1958, after his father's 80th birthday and the writer's 50th. The day after he was buried, …

Miss Vera Brown was the only pretty teacher at Central School, where she taught 5th grade. A boy in her class had a crush on her, thinking that her voice …

Writer recalls his boyhood in Lincoln, III. in the early 1920's. On a winter morning a tenant farmer living nearby, Lloyd Wilson, was found shot dead. …

I A girl is not sure she loves her fisherman husband, but when she conceives a child she knows she loves him. II An old couple stop at a wayside station on…

First, tale is about an old maid in a small town who wrote many letters to a great variety of people. No one ever answered them. After she died the …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the land leased in Bermuda by U.S. to be used for establishing naval & air bases. A number of American will have to abandon their …

Short story. He had come back to Watertown to spend Christmas with his family. But they were not entirely the reason for wanting to come home. Before he …