The Shadow in the Garden

In this engaging audiobook, James Atlas, a distinguished biographer known for his works on Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz, reflects on his journey into the world of literary lives. He shares anecdotes from his childhood in suburban Chicago, his transformative experience at Oxford with Richard Ellmann, and his first subject, the poet Delmore Schwartz. Along the way, Atlas pays tribute to notable biographers and writers of the past, weaving a narrative that explores the art of documenting lives while grappling with the passage of time and the impact of mortality on literary figures.