Cheever by blake bailey5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I understand the ways that Philip has brought this trouble on himself and I don’t hesitate to portray that. “I didn’t have enormous human expectations for writers of the first rank.” The author’s death came just in time to skirt the #MeToo movement, which likely would have scorched him for his casual sexism and prodigious philandering - sometimes with his students while teaching at prestigious institutions. But it was my fourth literary biography,” says Bailey. Bailey examines the author’s two bitter marriages and the circumstances surrounding the creation of his most memorable works, from his 1959 National Book Award-winning story collection, “ Goodbye, Columbus,” his breakthrough at the age of 26, to his death of heart failure in 2018. ![]() ![]() Next week, three years after Roth’s death, comes “ Philip Roth: The Biography,” weighing in at a comprehensive 900 pages. MaAn earlier version of this article misquoted Bailey twice, first by omitting quotation marks around “bitch of a wife” - those were Roth’s words - and second by stating “actual lie” instead of “actual life,” in reference to Cheever. ![]()
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