Blake Bailey
Blake Bailey is the biographer of writers Richard Yates and John Cheever and is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever's stories and novels. A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Cheever: A Life was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bailey is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. [extracted from 2010 festival brochure]
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