BENJAMIN TAYLOR is the author, most recently, of a family memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House. He has also published Proust: The Search, named in Thomas Mallon's Best Book of 2016 in The New York Times Book Review; Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, named by Judith Thurman in The New Yorker; and 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 Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post, and Saul Bellow: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction. A faculty member in the New School's Graduate School of Writing, Taylor also teaches in the Graduate Writing Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University. A past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he has been appointed president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation.