How Philip Roth’s biographer captured the writer’s complicated legacy
Blake Bailey spent more than eight years working on the Roth biography, which The New York Times has called “a narrative masterwork.”
In this Sept. 8, 2008, file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher in New York. A biography of the late author, Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey, was released on April 6, 2021.(Richard Drew)
In the span of a week,
The New York Times devoted not one but two reviews (plus a profile) to Bailey’s new book, the definitive biography of acclaimed author Philip Roth. The one by Cynthia Ozick was a flat-out rave, the one by Parul Sehgal, well, not so much.
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Dylan Farrow, left, Woody Allen and Ronan Farrow in archival footage from HBO’s “Allen v. Farrow.”
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1977: Farrow and her second husband, composer André Previn, adopt Soon-Yi , then about 7 years old, from South Korea. Farrow already had three biological sons (Matthew, Sascha and Fletcher) and two adopted daughters (Lark and Daisy).
1979: Allen and Farrow meet for the first time. Farrow, divorced from Previn, and Allen, not far removed from winning multiple Oscars for “Annie Hall,” are introduced at Elaine’s restaurant in Manhattan after a performance of Bernard Slade’s play “Romantic Comedy,” in which Farrow was then starring with Anthony Perkins.