‘Love’ by William Maxwell: Short Story Analysis 'Love' is a simple story of a fifth-grade classroom full of boys who were in love with their pretty teacher. However, the poor teacher met with a very tragic end; she died of tuberculosis. It is a short story by American writer William Maxwell, the fiction editor at The New Yorker. He passed away in the year 2000. He edited … [Read more...] about ‘Love’ by William Maxwell: Short Story Analysis