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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.