Blake Bailey: 8 books

Book cover of The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
by Blake Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014

**A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Autobiography' The renowned biographer’s unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins—his own.** Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion’s “Citizen of the Year” in his tiny hometown of Vinita,...
Book cover of Cheever
by Blake Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009

John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever been published—Bailey’s...
Book cover of A Tragic Honesty

A Tragic Honesty

The Life and Work of Richard Yates

by Blake Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013

The first biography of acclaimed American novelist and story writer Richard Yates Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age....
Book cover of Farther and Wilder

Farther and Wilder

The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson

by Blake Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do with...
Book cover of The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 To Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the An
by James Blake Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. right-hand side, and Matthew Baillie is the next figure to William Hunter on the left;
Book cover of The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 to Which are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act
by James Blake Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The “Diary of a Resurrectionist” here reprinted is only of a fragmentary character. It is, however, unique in being an actual record of the doings of one gang of the resurrection-men in London. Many persons have expressed a wish that so interesting a document should be published; permission having...
Book cover of 1001 Dark Nights: Bundle Ten
by Tessa Bailey, Lexi Blake, Larissa Ione
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Tessa Bailey, Lexi Blake, Larissa Ione, Laurelin Paige, and introducing Jenna Jacob and Sierra Simone. Six Dark Tales. Six Sensual Stories. Six Page Turners. ROUGH RHYTHM: A Made In Jersey Novella by Tessa Bailey Band manager...
Book cover of Writing the Horror Movie
by Marc Blake, Sara Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Tales of horror have always been with us, from Biblical times to the Gothic novel to successful modern day authors and screenwriters. Though the genre is often maligned, it is huge in popularity and its resilience is undeniable. Marc Blake and Sara Bailey offer a detailed analysis of the horror genre,...
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