Adam Begley is the author of Updike and The Great Nadar. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, and for many years the books editor of The New York Observer. He lives in England.
Vivid. -David Denby, New Yorker [This book] examines the secrets of Houdini's success. -Simon Yaffe, Jewish Telegraph Witty, intelligent, and sprightly, Adam Begley's Houdini tells a story that is not only central to the American experience, but strangely pertinent to the fakery, fraudulence, and self-promotion dominating our news waves at present. -Wendy Lesser, author of Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance