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I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: About Am City Class Ethos Grew John Middle Middle Class Much Myself Oklahoma Richard Same Suburbs Up Very Wrote

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I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Above Biographies Books Choosing Literary Love Subject To Love Tough Write I Write

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I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Chicago Daughter Desk Diploma Framed Getting Her Keep Latest Looking Photo Photographs Picture School Three University Wife

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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Boat Boy Father Fresh Germany Golden Greenwich He Law Law School Met Mother Nyu Off Prestigious Scholarship School Small Small Town Town Very Village Who Won Young

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To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Bad Baggage Evidence Gather Goes Good Keep Know Mind Objective Open Open Mind You

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I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Classics Contemporary Copy Edition Fan Huge Huge Fan Lost Program Quality Reading Series Time Weekend Which

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The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: America Establishment Feel Geared Homosexual Like Make Monsters Moral People Whole

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I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: About Academic Certain Ever Everything Find Gets Joe Just Out Passionate Read Suddenly Wants Who Why Writers Written Wrote

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If possible, be funny.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Funny Possible

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With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Biographies Either Fiction Literary Next Other Subject You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 1st, 1963

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