Adam C. Begley (born 1959 in
Boston
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, 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
Louis Begley (born Ludwik Begleiter; October 6, 1933) is a Polish-born Jewish American novelist. He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel ''Wartime Lies'' (1991) and the ''Schmidt'' trilogy: ''About Schmidt'' (1996 ...
. He graduated from
Harvard College
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, 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,
Cambridgeshire
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.
He wrote a biography of author
John Updike, published by HarperCollins in 2014, and a biography of French photographer
Nadar, 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, Phil ...
''s Art of Fiction series.
Awards
*2010
Guggenheim Fellowship
*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, Phil ...
'', 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, Phil ...
'', 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, Phil ...
'', 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 d ...
'', 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, Phil ...
'', 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