ADAM BEGLEY is the author of UPDIKE and THE GREAT NADAR: THE MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA. His new biography, HOUDINI: THE ELUSIVE AMERICAN will be released on March 17, 2020. Begley was the books editor of the New York Observer for twelve years, and has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Paris Review, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Spectator. He lives in England.