Blake Bailey

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Blake Bailey is an American biographer best known for his extensively researched and critically acclaimed biographies of major literary figures such as John Cheever and Philip Roth.

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instanceOf biographer
person
writer
awardReceived National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (finalist)
surface form: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1963
describedAs American biographer of literary figures
educatedAt Tulane University
genre biography
nonfiction
hasWrittenAbout Charles Jackson
John Cheever
Philip Roth
Richard Yates
languageOfWorkOrName English
nominatedFor Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
notableFor biographies of major American literary figures
extensively researched literary biographies
notableWork A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
Cheever: A Life
Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Nan A. Talese
surface form: Philip Roth: The Biography

The Splendid Things We Planned
occupation author
biographer
placeOfBirth Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
surface form: Oklahoma City
subjectOf biography of Charles Jackson
biography of John Cheever
biography of Philip Roth
biography of Richard Yates
writingStyle literary biography

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