Mellow, James R.

James R. Mellow (1926-1997) was an American writer and literary biographer.

From the description of James R. Mellow papers, 1940-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702158351

James R. Mellow was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1926, and attended Northwestern University. Beginning in 1950, he wrote about art and literature for Commonweal, ARTnews, and Arts Magazine, eventually becoming editor of the latter. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was an art critic for The New York Times . Mellow's books of literary biography include: Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company (1974), Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (1980), Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (1984) and Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (1992). He also wrote a biography of the photographer Walker Evans, which was published posthumously in 1999.

Mellow died at his home in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1997.

From the guide to the James R. Mellow papers, 1940-1999, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)