William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. - Two Typed Letters Signed and "The Folded Leaf"

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WILLIAM KEEPERS MAXWELL, JR. Two Typed Letters Signed from “William Maxwell” to “Professor Gray”.“…I once heard Saul Bellow say, in a lecture at Smith College, this lovely sentence: “ A writer is a reader who has been moved to emulation”. So far as I am aware, The Folded Leaf does not derive from any particular book or author. It is partly autobiographical and partly pure fiction, and sometimes now I have trouble remembering which is which…”Maxwell provides detailed information on his work The Folded Leaf (“…I don’t know quite how to answer your question “Are there any literary sources for “The Folded Leaf”? I once heard Saul Bellow say, in a lecture at Smith College, this lovely sentence: “ A writer is a reader who has been moved to emulation”. So far as I am aware, The Folded Leaf does not derive from any particular book or author. It is partly autobiographical and partly pure fiction, and sometimes now I have trouble remembering which is which. Some of the characters are modeled on real people, some are composites derived from various models (Rinehart, Professor Severance), and some (the roominghouse keeper) are inventions. It is in paperback, in the Vintage Editions, but I ought to warn you that I went through it, for the Vintage edition, making certain cuts and changes that I had been wanting to make for a long time and that read more

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