The Roth Biography Scandal
Philip Roth: The Biography the key issue being,
Was Roth a misogynist? when both book and biographer spilled over from the review pages to Page One. “Sexual Assault Allegations Against Biographer Halt Shipping of his Book,” the
New York Times announced in April. Several women accused Bailey of predatory behavior. At a Louisiana private school where he had once taught English, he was said to have “groomed” eighth-graders for later of-age seductions to rape. And a woman said that Bailey had raped her at the home of a mutual friend who in one of the scandal’s myriad ironies was a book reviewer for the
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