The Shadow in the Garden

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The Shadow in the Garden is written by James Atlas and published by Pantheon. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1101871695 (ISBN 10) and 9781101871690 (ISBN 13).

"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"