Robert Williams Buchanan
Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist (1841-1901)
Leon Edel
Canadian writer
Joseph Leon Edelwas an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.
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Joseph Leon Edelwas an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica calls Edel “the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James.” His work on James won him both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
3 Quotes by Leon Edel
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The biographer who writes the life of his subject’s self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Leon EdelCanadian writer
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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon EdelCanadian writer
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The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon EdelCanadian writer