James Atlas is the founding editor of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives Series. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine for many years. The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, Vanity Fair, and many other journals. He is the author of DELMORE SCHWARTZ: The Life of an American Poet, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and, more recently, author of the much acclaimed Saul Bellow biography, Bellow. He is also a longtime board member of the Harvard Advocate, which has previously published his work. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The New York Review of Books (or NYREV) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ... The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a fortnightly British literary magazine. ... Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. ... The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and are presently awarded in each... The Harvard Advocate, the premier literary magazine of Harvard College, the undergraduate component of Harvard University, is the oldest continuously published college literary magazine in the United States. ...