Mellow, James R.

James R. Mellow was the author of two other highly acclaimed biographies, "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Times", which won the American Book Award for biography in 1983, and "Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald", as well as "Walker Evans", an unfinished biography that was published posthumously. A regular reviewer for "The New York Times", he died in 1997.