BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2011 – 2012

Adam Begley

For a biography of John Updike

Adam Begley, for many years the books editor of The New York Observer, is the author, with Ed Sorel, of Certitude: A Profusely Illustrated Guide to Blockheads and Bullheads, Past and Present; and with Laura Miller he edited The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors. In the 1990s he was a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine; Mirabella, where he wrote a monthly book column; and Lingua Franca, where he was a contributing editor. He is previously a Guggenheim Fellow, and as a Leon Levy fellow he worked the first biography of John Updike, the prolific and driven novelist, critic, story writer and poet who had but one cheer for literary biography. Updike was published by HarperCollins in 2014.