Author
William Maxwell
CONTRIBUTIONS
Interviews
Sep 01 1996
A Conversation with William Maxwell
Interviewer: You’ve said you learned from E.B. White that the “I” should always be a real character in any piece that you’ve written. Have you ever had a sense in your writing life that you were flying in the face of current convention, or being old-fashioned, by adhering to that principle?
Maxwell: I never worried about being old-fashioned because the books I’ve continued to read all my life have been the Russians. I wanted to write about people, men and women. What’s old-fashioned about men and women?
Interviews
Mar 01 1996
A Conversation with William Maxwell
“The novelist has a moral obligation not to leave the reader with unanswered questions.”