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3 unusual facts about Blake Bailey


Blake Bailey

After publishing a long critical profile of Richard Yates, Bailey contracted to write a full-length biography of the novelist, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates (2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

In 2005, Bailey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on his biography, Cheever: A Life, which won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Head of the Family

Loretta's problem is she's having an affair with Lance (Blake Bailey), owner of the town diner and Howard’s getting suspicious.



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