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Leon Edel

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Gender Male
Death26 years ago
Date of birth September 9,1907
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
United States
Date of died September 5,1997
DiedHonolulu
Hawaii
United States
Siblings Abraham Edel
Job Biographer
Literary critic
Education University of Paris
McGill University
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Biography
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Date of Upd.
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Henry James: A Life
Literary Biography
Bloomsbury, a House of Lions
Vidas Ajenas Principia Biographica
Henry James, the Master: 1901-1916
The visitable past
Henry James: The Untried Years 1843–1870
The life of Henry James
A bibliography of Henry James
Stuff of sleep and dreams
The modern psychological novel
Henry James: The Treacherous Years 1895–1901
James Joyce, the last journey
Henry James
psychological novel 1900-1950
The Selected Letters of Henry James
Henry James: The middle years, 1882-1895
The library of Henry James
The prefaces of Henry James
Henry James: a collection of critical essays
Henry D. Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry James in Westminster Abbey
Literary Criticism: European writers and prefaces
Henry James. 1. The untried years, 1843 - 1870
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Leon Edel Life story


Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls Edel "the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James. "

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