Joseph Leon Edel (9 September 1907 – 5 September 1997) was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.[1][2]
The Encyclopædia Britannica calls Edel "the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James."[3] His work on James won him both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.[4]
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Joseph LeonEdel (9 September 1907 – 5 September 1997) was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American...
1901–1916 by LeonEdel (1972) ISBN 0-380-39677-7 Henry James: A Life by LeonEdel (1985) ISBN 0060154594. One-volume abridgment of Edel's five-volume biography...
including bibliographical scholar Simon Nowell-Smith and literary critic LeonEdel, to speak out against it. The bracketed form [sic] is most often inserted...
of the Period, ed. LeonEdel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975 The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, ed. LeonEdel, Farrar, Straus and...
Alfred William Edel (c. 1930–2005), American television news presenter Apoula Edel (born 1986), Cameroonian-Armenian footballer LeonEdel (1907–1997), North...
marriage Misogyny LeonEdel (1980). Henry James Letters Vol. 3: 1883-1895. The Belknap Press of Harvard University. pp. 79–82. LeonEdel (1980). Henry James...
A poorly edited version of the diary was eventually released in 1934. LeonEdel edited a fuller edition in 1964. The diary has made James something of...
understanding of an author's works is not possible without extrinsic sources. LeonEdel in his book Literary Biography devoted a chapter to defending biographical...
philosopher Elizabeth Flower. Her uncle was writer and historian LeonEdel. In the 1970s, Edel worked as a psychologist for children with learning disabilities...
Keynes. Bloomsbury Press, 2009. pp. 56, 57. ISBN 978-1-60819-023-2. Edel, Leon. Bloomsbury: A House of Lions, Hogarth Press, 1979 Fargis, Paul. The New...
History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects Winner 1963 LeonEdel Henry James Henry James, American-born British writer and literary critic...
have almost unanimously agreed with him about the tale's superb quality. LeonEdel wrote, "The story moves with the rhythmic pace and tension of a mystery...
of the story's events. Most critics agreed with Young, especially when LeonEdel noted the Methuen edition order, and, since then, most published versions...
foundation; it characterised the governess as increasingly mad and hysterical. LeonEdel, James' most influential biographer, wrote that it is not the ghosts who...
the New York Edition edited by LeonEdel and Mark Wilson (1984) ISBN 0-940450-23-2 Henry James Letters edited by LeonEdel, volume 4 (1984) ISBN 0-674-38780-5...
younger brother of the North American literary critic and biographer LeonEdel, and the uncle of the composer Joel Mandelbaum. He was married three times;...
mid-1920s at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. The Group included LeonEdel, John Glassco, A. M. Klein, Leo Kennedy, F. R. Scott, and A. J. M. Smith...
befriends. Introduction to Henry James: Stories of the Supernatural by LeonEdel (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company 1970) ISBN 0-8008-3829-7 The Notebooks...
Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor and educator (d. 1971) 1907 – LeonEdel, American author and critic (d. 1997) 1908 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet...
House. London: Chapman & Hall. p. 563. Henry James letters, edited by LeonEdel, Vol. 3: 1883–1895, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University...
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