{"id":15869,"date":"2015-04-22T12:51:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T16:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=15869"},"modified":"2015-04-25T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T13:02:00","slug":"algren-to-get-the-literary-biography-he-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/04\/algren-to-get-the-literary-biography-he-deserves.html","title":{"rendered":"Algren to Get the Literary Biography He Deserves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Leon Levy Center for Biography<\/a> has awarded fellowships worth $60,000 each to four writers who are currently working on new biographies. One of them is Colin Asher, whose tentatively titled biography of Nelson Algren, But Never a Lovely So Real,<\/em> is under contract to W. W. Norton & Company. The other recipients are Blake Gopnik for a biography of Andy Warhol, Gordana-Dana Grozdani\u0107 for a biography of the Bosnian writer Zija Dizdarevi\u0107, and Eric K. Washington for a biography of James H. Williams, the former chief porter of Grand Central Terminal.<\/p>\n

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The biography center is headed by the cultural commentator, biographer, and former jazz critic Gary Giddins<\/a>, and is based at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. For more details about the recipients of the 2015-16 biography fellowships, click the full announcement<\/a>. Asher asked me to write one of his letters of recommendation, and my inordinately proud staff of thousands believes it may have helped (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n

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The Leon Levy Center for Biography has awarded fellowships worth $60,000 each to four writers who are currently working on new biographies. One of them is Colin Asher, whose tentatively titled biography of Nelson Algren, But Never a Lovely So Real, is under contract to W. W. Norton & Company. The other recipients are Blake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Colin-Asher-photo.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-47X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15927,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions\/15927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}