Quest for Biography

About the Book

About the Author

Frederick R. Karl is the author of several books: biographies of Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, and George Eliot; as well as several volumes of literary criticism, among them American Fictions: 1940-1980. He is, also, general editor and volume co-editor of the Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, five volumes of which have appeared. His most recent book, for XLibris, is American Fictions: 1980-2000. Married and the father of three daughters, he has taught at the City College of New York, Columbia, and New York University.