Adam Begley
Adam Begley | |
|---|---|
| Born | Adam C. Begley 1959 (age 66–67) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard College Stanford University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Parent(s) | Sally (Higginson) and Louis Begley |
Adam C. Begley[1] (born 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American biographer. He was the books editor for The New York Observer from 1996 to 2009.[2]
Begley is the son of Sally (Higginson) and novelist Louis Begley. He graduated from Harvard College in 1982, and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1989. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian,[3] The Times Literary Supplement,[4] The Spectator,[5] and The Atlantic.[6]
Begley lives with his wife, Anne Cotton, in Great Gidding, Cambridgeshire. His stepdaughter is the novelist and art critic Chloë Ashby. He is the author of biographies of John Updike[7] and the 19th-century French photographer Nadar. Begley's biography of Harry Houdini appeared in the Yale Jewish Lives series. Begley is a frequent contributor to the Paris Review's Art of Fiction series. He is currently at work on a book about Harvard College.[8]
Awards
- 2010: Guggenheim Fellowship[9]
- 2011: Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship[10]
Works
- Literary Agents: A Writer's Guide. With Debby Mayer, Penguin Books, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-017215-7
- "The Art of Fiction No. 135: Don DeLillo", Paris Review, Issue 128, Fall 1993
- The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors, inter alia, Penguin Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-14-028088-3
- "The Art of Fiction No. 173: Ian McEwan", Paris Review, Issue 162, Summer 2002
- "he Art of Fiction No. 179: Jim Crace", Paris Review, Issue 167, Fall 2003
- Certitude: A Profusely Illustrated Guide to Blockheads and Bullheads, Past and Present, with Christopher Hitchens, Illustrator Edward Sorel, HARMONY, 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-40804-4
- "The Art of Fiction No. 204: David Mitchell", Paris Review, Issue 193, Summer 2010
- "The Art of Fiction No. 236: Ali Smith", Paris Review, Issue 221, Summer 2017
- Updike, Harper-Collins, New York, 2014, ISBN 978-0-06-189645-3
- The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera, New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-10-190260-8
- Houdini: The Elusive American, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-0-300-23079-6
References
- ↑ "Marisa del Rosario and Adam Begley Are Planning to Be Married In June". The New York Times. January 9, 1983.
- ↑ observer.com
- ↑ "Adam Begley". Penguin Random House.
- ↑ Begley, Adam. "American freestyle". TLS. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
- ↑ Begley, Adam (October 31, 2019). "Meet Dr Love: the infallibly seductive, pioneering French gynaecologist". The Spectator. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
- ↑ Begley, Adam (September 9, 2022). "Ian McEwan's Anti-Memoir". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
- ↑ "The Observer's Own Adam Begley to Write Updike Bio for HarperCollins | the New York Observer". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
- ↑ Begley, Adam (November 3, 2023). "Hunger games: A New York critic's gluttony for books and food". TLS. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
- ↑ "Adam Begley - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
- ↑ "Press Release: Leon Levy Center for Biography Announces 2011-2012 Biography Fellows". CUNY Graduate Center. March 1, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2026.