Philip Roth
Publisher: Norton
ISBN: 9780393240726
First entered: 10
Number of weeks: 1
Book Summary
Authors

Name: Blake Bailey
Hometown: Oklahoma City
Born: Jul, 1963
About the author:
Blake Bailey is the author of biographies of Philip Roth, John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, and a finalist for the Pulitzer and James Tait Black Prizes. His 2014 book, The Splendid Things We Planned, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.