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02842aam a22003978i 4500 001 4F6F6E608FA411E79D96BF2097128E48 003 SILO 005 20170902010212 008 170202s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016057846 020 $a 1101871695 020 $a 9781101871690 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a CT34.U6 $b A85 2017 082 00 $a 920.073 $2 23 084 $a BIO025000 $a BIO007000 $a BIO025000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Atlas, James, $e author. 245 14 $a The shadow in the garden : $b a biographer's tale / $c James Atlas. 260 $a New York : $b Pantheon, $c 2017. 263 $a 1708 300 $a 388 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz. The biographer--so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts--here comes to the stage. James Atlas takes us back to his childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse to study writers' lives. We meet Richard Ellmann, the great biographer of James Joyce and Atlas's professor during a transformative year at Oxford. We get to know the author's first subject, the "self-doomed" poet Delmore Schwartz; a bygone cast of intellectuals such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the "tall trees," as Mary McCarthy described them, cut down now, Atlas writes, by the "merciless pruning of mortality"); and, of course, the elusive Bellow, "a metaphysician of the ordinary." Atlas revisits the lives and work of the classical biographers: the Renaissance writers of what were then called "lives," Samuel Johnson and the "meshugenah" Boswell, among them. And in what amounts to a pocket history of his own literary generation, Atlas celebrates the luminaries of contemporary literature and the labor of those who hope to catch a glimpse of one of them--"as fleeting as a familiar face swallowed up in a crowd.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Atlas, James. 650 0 $a Biographers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Biography as a literary form. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: $a Atlas, James, author. $t Shadow in the garden $d New York : Pantheon, 2017 $z 9781101871706 $w (DLC) 2017005217 941 $a 2 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230104013828.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006111641.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4F6F6E608FA411E79D96BF2097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search