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Oct 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780679772569 Buy
Sep 09, 2009 | ISBN 9780307484970 Buy
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Oct 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780679772569
Sep 09, 2009 | ISBN 9780307484970
Here is a classic novel from one of our most honored writers–the author of such acclaimed works as So Long, See You Tomorrow and All the Days and Nights." The Folded Leaf is the serenely observed yet deeply moving story of two boys finding one another in the Midwest of the 1920s, when childhood lasted longer than it does today and even adults were more innocent of what life could bring.
William Maxwell was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and after earning a master’s at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, three… More about William Maxwell
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