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Leon Edel enjoys the reputation of being the foremost literary biographer of his time. That reputation began in 1953 with the publication of Henry James: The Untried Years, 1843-1870, the opening volume of the biography for which he is still probably best known. Edel's importance as a biographer, however, extends well beyond his work on James. In 1947 he wrote a sketch titled James Joyce: The Last Journey; in 1953 he completed the biography of Willa Cather that his friend E. K. Brown had been working on at his death; his introduction to his edition of The Diary of Alice James (1964) provides the first important biographical sketch of the novelist's sister; in 1970 appeared his revealing monograph on the life of Henry David Thoreau; Bloomsbury: A House of Lions (1979) is his first experiment in group biography. While at work on these examples of the biographer's art, he was writing essays that serve as statements of the precepts of that art.
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