Blake Bailey is the author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, a finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on his biography, Cheever: A Life, which won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes. His articles and reviews have appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Republic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, New York Observer, The Believer, Vice, Spy, Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere.