So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)
First edition | |
| Author | William Maxwell |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Brookie Maxwell |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The New Yorker (magazine) Knopf (book) |
Publication date | 1979 (magazine) 1980 (book) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 135 |
| ISBN | 0-394-50835-1 |
So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine in October 1979 in two parts. It was published as a book the following year by Alfred A. Knopf.
It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award. It was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. Michael Ondaatje described it as "one of the great books of our age". In 2016, it was included in a Parade Magazine list of the "75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years".
The novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction".