Adam C. Begley (born 1959 in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the capital city, state capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financ ...
, Massachusetts) is an American freelance writer, and was the books editor for ''
The New York Observer
''The New York Observer'' was a weekly newspaper printed from 1987 to 2016, when it ceased print publication and became the online-only newspaper ''Observer''. The media site focuses on culture, real estate, media, politics and the entertainmen ...
'' from 1996 to 2009.
Begley is the son of Sally (Higginson) and novelist
Louis Begley. He graduated from
Harvard College
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher ...
, and from
Stanford University with a Ph.D. in 1989.
His work has appeared in ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Guardian'', and the ''Financial Times''.
He lives with his wife, Anne Cotton, and stepchildren, in
Great Gidding
Great Gidding is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.
Great Gidding lies approximately north-west of Huntingdon. The village has a Church of England primary school, playing field, corner shop, ...
,
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...
.
He wrote a biography of author
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth ...
, published by HarperCollins in 2014, and a biography of French photographer
Nadar
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first perso ...
, published by Tim Duggan Books in 2017. He is a contributing interviewer to the ''
Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Ph ...
''s Art of Fiction series.
Awards
*2010
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
*2011
Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship
Works
* ''Literary Agents: A Writer’s Guide''. Adam Begley, Debby Mayer, Penguin Books, 1993,
The Art of Fiction No. 135: Don DeLillo ''
Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Ph ...
'', 1993
* ''The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors'', Laura Miller, Adam Begley, Penguin Books, 2000,
The Art of Fiction No. 173: Ian McEwan ''
Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Ph ...
'', 2002
The Art of Fiction No. 179: Jim Crace ''
Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Ph ...
'', 2003
* ''Certitude: A Profusely Illustrated Guide to Blockheads and Bullheads, Past and Present'', Adam Begley, Christopher Hitchens, Illustrator Edward Sorel, HARMONY, 2009,
"Stendhal in Parma, Italy" ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', December 27, 2009
The Art of Fiction No. 204: David Mitchell ''
Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Ph ...
'', 2010
* ''Updike'', Adam Begley, Harper-Collins, New York, 2014,
* ''The Great Nadar'', Adam Begley, Tim Duggan Books, New York, 2017,
References
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American male writers
1959 births
Writers from Boston
Harvard College alumni
Stanford University alumni
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
Living people
People from Huntingdonshire