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Philip Roth bio coming. Blake Bailey has already written John Cheever and Richard Yates' biographies. Now he's turning to Philip Roth. Bailey and Roth have been holding lengthy interview sessions, and the author signed an agreement to allow Bailey unfettered access to his letters and archives. Don't expect to read the bio anytime soon, though. Bailey expects the project to take him up to 10 years to finish (after all, just getting through Roth's 26 novels and change is a huge time commitment). Bailey is now the second writer to attempt a Roth biography; Ross Miller gave up in 2009 after five years of trying. Roth reportedly grilled Bailey, a midwestern non-Jew, on his credentials for profiling an author so strongly linked with New Jersey and Jewish-American identity. "I pointed out that I’m not an aging bisexual alcoholic with an ancient Puritan lineage and I still managed to write a biography of John Cheever," Bailey said
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