Poetic Obituaries: In 1946 Mr. [William] Maner began a six-year stint

as an assistant professor of English at the University of Richmond. Simultaneously he was book editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. In the 1950s Mr. Maner joined Virginia Electric & Power Company (now Dominion Resources), holding a number of executive posts before retiring in 1982 as a district manager based in Williamsburg.

Beginning In the 1940s and continuing through the 1970s, Mr. Maner wrote fiction and poetry for The New Yorker, Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and McCall's, as well as for magazines in Australia and Great Britain. He published five mystery novels in the U.S. and Europe.

from The Virginia Gazette: Bill Maner, civic activist, dies

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