Author Description

John Leonard was a lion of American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. <i>Reading for My Life</i> is a monumental collection of Leonard's most significant writings—spanning five decades—from his earliest columns for the <i>Harvard Crimson</i> to his final essays for the <i>New York Review of Books</i>. Definitive reviews of Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth, among others, display Leonard's encyclopedic knowledge of literature and make this book a landmark achievement from one of America's most beloved and influential critics.