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Adam C. Begley[1] (born 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American freelance writer, and was the books editor for The New York Observer from 1996 to 2009.[2]

Begley is the son of Sally (Higginson) and novelist Louis Begley. He graduated from Harvard College, and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in 1989. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and the Financial Times.[3]

He lives with his wife, Anne Cotton, and stepchildren, in Great Gidding, Cambridgeshire. He wrote a biography of author John Updike, published by HarperCollins in 2014,[4] and a biography of French photographer Nadar, published by Tim Duggan Books in 2017. He is a contributing interviewer to the Paris Review's Art of Fiction series.

Awards

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
• 2011 Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship[6]

Works

• Literary Agents: A Writer’s Guide. Adam Begley, Debby Mayer, Penguin Books, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-017215-7
• The Art of Fiction No. 135: Don DeLillo, Paris Review, 1993
• The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors, Laura Miller, Adam Begley, Penguin Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-14-028088-3
• The Art of Fiction No. 173: Ian McEwan, Paris Review, 2002
• The Art of Fiction No. 179: Jim Crace, Paris Review, 2003
• Certitude: A Profusely Illustrated Guide to Blockheads and Bullheads, Past and Present, Adam Begley, Christopher Hitchens, Illustrator Edward Sorel, HARMONY, 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-40804-4
• "Stendhal in Parma, Italy", The New York Times, December 27, 2009
• The Art of Fiction No. 204: David Mitchell, Paris Review, 2010
• Updike, Adam Begley, Harper-Collins, New York, 2014, ISBN 978-0-06-189645-3
• The Great Nadar, Adam Begley, Tim Duggan Books, New York, 2017, ISBN 978-1-10-190260-8

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