Edel, [Joseph] Leon
Edel, [Joseph] Leon( 1907– ),born in Pittsburgh but educated at McGill University, Toronto (M.A., 1928), and the University of Paris (Litt.D., 1932), served as a journalist before entering an academic career in 1950 as a professor at New York University. He is particularly known for his scholarly work on Henry James, including various editions such as The Complete Plays (1949) and the Complete Tales (12 vols., 1963–65) and selected Letters (2 vols., 1974–75), but particularly for his authoritative Life (5 vols., 1953–72), which won a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for two of its volumes. A one-volume version was published in 1985. Edel's other works include a study of Joyce (1947), The Modern Psychological Novel (1955), Literary Biography (1957), Bloomsburg, A House of Lions (1979), Stuff of Sleep and Dreams: Experiments in Literary Psychology (1982), and, with E.K. Brown,...
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