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hosted by: PAUL HENDRICKSON

BLAKE BAILEY is the author of biographies of John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson, and he is at work on the authorized biography of Philip Roth. In 2014 he published a memoir, The Splendid Things We Planned. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes. He live in Virginia with his wife and daughter.