The volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography. If not in the columns of the Atlantic, where else, by the way, should it be asked why the Letters of Lanier, edited by Mr. W. R.

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, Saul Bellow transformed modern literature. He illuminated 20th-century American life through ...

His father and mother were Lithuanian and Welsh, respectively, before they were American. He was poor before he was rich, a New Englander before he moved West and a Democrat before he was a Republican ...

THE reading of biography and of autobiography must be approached at widely divergent angles. The biography is in large measure a piece of work, well or ill done;, the autobiography, if sincere, is ...