Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997 (Personal Name)

His Charmed circle, 1974.

Michael S. Reynolds personal papers ... curriculum vitae and promotional material for publications, July 4, 1995: (file contains photograph of author James R. Mellow) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/MSRPP-005-001-p0001.aspx

New York Times WWW site via Google search, July 6, 2016: obituary, November 25, 1997 (James R. Mellow, 71, critic and author who wrote a trilogy of biographies about writers of the Lost Generation, died from a heart attack on Saturday at his home in Rockport, Massachusetts) http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/25/arts/james-r-mellow-dies-at-71-author-of-literary-biographies.html

U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index via Ancestry.com, July 6, 2016 (James Robert Mellow Jr.; b. February 28, 1926, Gloucester, Massachusetts; d. November 22, 1997)

(OCLC, July 21, 2016 (hdg.: Mellow, James R. (1926- ); Mellow, James R. (James Robert); Mellow, James R. (James Robert), 1926-; Mellow, James R., 1926-1997; Mellow, James Robert; Mellow, J.R.; Mellow, James R.; usage: James R. Mellow)

James Robert Mellow (b. February 28, 1926, Gloucester, Massachusetts-d. November 22, 1997, Rockport, Massachusetts), critic and author who wrote a trilogy of biographies about writers of the Lost Generation. Mr. Mellow was an art critic for The New York Times, a book reviewer, and a literary biographer. His first book, ''Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company,'' firmly established his reputation. It was followed by, ''Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times,'' which won the American Book Award for biography for its paperback edition in 1983; ''Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,'' and ''Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences.'' Mellow served two years in the Army Air Force before attending Northwestern University. He graduated in 1950 and came to New York, where he wrote on art and literature for Commonweal, Art News and Arts Magazine. He subsequently became editor of Arts Magazine. In 1983, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mr. Mellow had homes in Rockport, Massachusetts and Clinton, Connecticut, and was survived by Augie Capaccio, his companion of 46 years, and a brother, George, of Georgetown, Kentucky.