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Benjamin Taylor is the author of Proust: The Search, named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times Book Review; Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, named a Best Book by The New Yorker; and of two award-winning novels, Tales Out of School and The Book of Getting Even. He previously edited Saul Bellow: Letters, named a Best Book of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times and Saul Bellow: There is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction. A past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he has also been elected president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. He lives in New York.  

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