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James Atlas is the founding editor of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives Series, a joint venture of Penguin and Lipper Books that he conceived around 1996 as he was struggling with his Bellow biography. His idea was to pair well-known writers and biographical subjects, with the books to be 150 pages show more or so, short for the genre. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine for many years. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review, and many other journals. He is the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet, which was nominated for a National Book Award. James Atalas passed away on September 4, 2019 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Bellow (2000) 181 copies, 3 reviews

Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet (1977) 101 copies, 1 review

Battle of the Books: The Curriculum Debate in America (1992) 85 copies, 5 reviews

My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale (2005) 66 copies, 1 review

The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale (2017) 60 copies

The Book Wars : What It Takes to Be Educated in America (1990) 52 copies, 1 review

The Great Pretender (1986) 45 copies, 1 review

How They See Us: Meditations on America (2010) — Editor — 24 copies, 1 review

Remembering Roth (2019) 14 copies, 1 review

Ten American Poets (1973) — Editor — 1 copy

Bluffmakaren (1988) 1 copy

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Plutarch's Lives (0100) — Introduction, some editions — 2,556 copies, 27 reviews

The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contributor — 399 copies, 18 reviews

Go (1952) — Foreword, some editions — 364 copies, 1 review

Granta 41: Biography (1992) — Contributor — 144 copies, 3 reviews

American Presidents Eminent Lives Boxed Set: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant (2005) — some editions — 33 copies, 1 review

Essays on the Closing of the American Mind (1989) — Contributor — 25 copies, 1 review

I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics (2019) — Introduction — 23 copies, 1 review

Selected Poems and Texts (1973) — Editor, some editions — 9 copies

Critical Essays on Galway Kinnell (1996) — Contributor — 2 copies

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