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Cover of volume one of Leon Edel's five-volume biography of Henry James, Avon Books paperback edition 1978. Edel was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Fannie (Malamud) and Simon Edel. Edel grew up in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. He attended McGill University and the University of Paris.
- Biography of Henry James
Leon Edel was an American literary critic and biographer, who was the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James. Edel grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada, and graduated from McGill University (B.A., 1927; M.A., 1928). He received a doctorate of letters from the University of.
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Sep 8, 1997 · Leon Edel, the biographer whose writing on Henry James won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, died on Friday in Honolulu. He was 89 and lived in Honolulu. Mr. Edel's wife, the...
Jan 4, 1998 · Richard Holmes tribute to Leon Edel, biographer and editor who devoted life to study of novelist Henry James; Edel died in 1997; photo (M)1.
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Feb 21, 2021 · by. Edel, Leon, 1907-1997. Publication date. 1985. Topics. James, Henry, 1843-1916, Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography, Americans -- Great Britain -- Biography. Publisher.
Sep 10, 1997 · Leon Edel, biographer and editor of Henry James, was the foremost Jamesian scholar of his age and played an important part in rescuing the novelist from the indifference of British readers...
ISBN 9780674387836. Publication date: 01/01/1984. This volume, the conclusion of Leon Edel's splendid edition, rounds off a half century of work on James by the noted biographer-critic. In the letters of the novelist's last twenty years a new Henry James is revealed.
