They Came Like Swallows
by William Maxwell
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- Paperback
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- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 067977257X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679772576
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William Maxwell was born in 1908, in Lincoln, Illinois. When he was fourteen his family moved to Chicago and he continues his education there and at the University of Illinois. After a year of graduate work at Harvard he went back to Urbana and taught freshman composition, and then turned to writing. He has published six novels, three collections of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For forty years he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.
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- Title
- They Came Like Swallows
- Author
- William Maxwell
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 4
- ISBN 10
- 067977257X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679772576
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997
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