James Atlas
James Atlas has written a biography of Saul Bellow, among other books.
Pieces about James Atlas in the LRB
How far shall I take this character? The Corruption of Literary Biography
Richard Poirier, 2 November 2000
This is the first comprehensive biography of Saul Bellow and the first to receive his co-operation over the complete, ten-year span of its writing. The author, James Atlas, whose biography of...
Poets and Pretenders
John Sutherland, 2 April 1987
James Atlas’s The Great Pretender is a first novel. But Atlas has some prior fame as the author of a powerful biography of Delmore Schwartz, America’s poète maudit who died...
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