Publisher pulls Philip Roth bio, cuts ties with author
By HILLEL ITALIEApril 27, 2021 GMT
This cover image released by W.W. Norton shows Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey. (W.W. Norton via AP)
This cover image released by W.W. Norton shows Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey. (W.W. Norton via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) The publisher of a highly anticipated and widely debated biography of Philip Roth is pulling the book and cutting ties with author Blake Bailey, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault. W.W. Norton and Company previously released Bailey’s memoir “The Splendid Things We Planned.”
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This was the first I’d heard about what the email termed the “recent developments surrounding Blake Bailey”. But it took just two key strokes to learn that several women have come forward with extremely disturbing allegations about the biographer. These range from accounts of reckless behavior with female students he’d taught in a New Orleans junior high school (dirty jokes, encouraging girls to write about their sex lives) to more recent and highly believable accusations of rape. No charges have been made. Bailey has denied all allegations. His publisher has cancelled a second 100,000-copy printing of the book and halted its distribution, ending all publicity and promotional events.