Sylvia Townsend Warner was a poet, short-story writer, and
novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a
member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes,
appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book-of-the-Month Club
selection. Mr. Fortune's Maggot, her second, followed a year later.
The Salutation was the title novella of a 1932 collection. Over the
course of her long career, Sylvia Townsend Warner published five
more novels, seven books of poetry, a translation of Proust,
fourteen volumes of short stories, and a biography of T.H.
White.
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short
story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served
as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975.
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