![]() How did you develop an interest in writing about Yates?īailey: In the late 1980s, Vintage Contemporaries reprinted three of Yates’ books, Revolutionary Road, and The Easter Parade, and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. ![]() In the acknowledgments of Cheever: A Life, you talk about the book as developing from your earlier biography of Richard Yates. This interview was conducted earlier this year, shortly after the release of Cheever: A Life. Bailey currently is the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. For the Library of America, he edited two volumes of Cheever’s work: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings, and John Cheever: Complete Novels. In addition, Bailey received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. ![]() His biography of Richard Yates, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. Blake Bailey’s biography of John Cheever, Cheever: A Life, won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, among many other accolades. ![]()
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