Blake Bailey is the editor of a two-volume edition of Cheever’s work, published in 2009 by The Library of America. His last book,A Tragic Honesty,was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2005, and his articles and reviews have appeared inSlate,The New York Times,theNew York Observer,and elsewhere. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.