Blake Bailey (born July 1, 1963 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American writer. Bailey is widely known for his literary biographies of Richard Yates and John Cheever. He is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever's stories and novels — and in 2009, Bailey was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Bailey grew up in Oklahoma City and went to college at Tulane University, from which he graduated in 1985.
He is married to Mary Brinkm...
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Blake Bailey (born July 1, 1963 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American writer. Bailey is widely known for his literary biographies of Richard Yates and John Cheever. He is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever's stories and novels — and in 2009, Bailey was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Bailey grew up in Oklahoma City and went to college at Tulane University, from which he graduated in 1985.
He is married to Mary Brinkmeyer, a psychologist at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. Together they have a daughter. Bailey is a tennis enthusiast.
Bailey and his family lost their house and most of their possessions in Hurricane Katrina, an experience he wrote about in a series of articles for Slate.
He is currently the Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and has recently completed a biography of Charles Jackson, author of The Lost Weekend (1944).
After college, Bailey wrote occasional free-lance pieces and...
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