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Name
  
Zachary Leader


Role
  
Professor

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Education
  
Harvard University, Northwestern University, Trinity College, Cambridge

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Nominations
  
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Books
  
The Life of Kingsley Amis, Revision and Romantic, Reading Blake's Songs, Romantic Period Writings 1, Writer's Block

Similar People
  
Ian Haywood, Kingsley Amis, Jerome J McGann, Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Zachary Leader (born 1946) is a professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later pursued graduate study at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Harvard University. Though born in the U.S. and remaining an American citizen, Leader has lived and worked for over forty years in the UK. His best-known works are probably The Letters of Kingsley Amis, which he edited and published in 2001, and The Life of Kingsley Amis (2006, UK; 2007, US), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. The first volume of his two-volume biography of Saul Bellow, The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964, was published in May 2015 by Alfred Knopf in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK. On Life-Writing, an edited collection, will be published in September by OUP. He is General Editor of the Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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List of publications

  • Reading Blake's Songs, (London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 259pp. (1981)
  • Writer's Block, (London and Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press), 320pp. (1991)
  • Revision and Romantic Authorship, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996; pbk, 1999), 354pp. (1996)
  • Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832: An Anthology, co-edited with Ian Haywood (London and Boston: Routledge, pbk), 254pp. (1999)
  • The Letters of Kingsley Amis, edited by Z. Leader, London: HarperCollins, 2000; New York: Talk/Miramax, 1208pp. (2001)
  • On Modern British Fiction, edited by Z. Leader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 319pp. (2002)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, co-edited by Z. Leader and M. O'Neill, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 845pp. (2003)
  • The Life of Kingsley Amis, Hardcover, New York: Random House, 1008 pp. (2006)
  • The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries, edited by Z. Leader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 336pp. (2008)
  • The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2015; New York: Alfred Knopf), 812pp. (2015)
  • On Life-Writing, edited by Z. Leader (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 315pp. (2015)

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