Background
Atlas, James Robert was born on March 22, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Donald and Nora (Glassenberg) Atlas.
(Clear, precise, graceful...(Atlas') biographical style ma...)
Clear, precise, graceful...(Atlas') biographical style makes the book read with the pleasure of a good novel.--Leonard Michaels, The New York Times Book Review
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Atlas, James Robert was born on March 22, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Donald and Nora (Glassenberg) Atlas.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1971; postgraduate (Rhodes scholar), Oxford (England) University, 1971-1973.
Staff writer, Time, New York City, 1977-1978; assistant editor, New York Times Book Review, New York Times, 1978-1981; associate editor, Atlantic Monthly, 1981-1985; contributing editor, Vanity Fair, New York City, 1985-1987; assistant editor, New York Times Magazine, 1987-1997; consultant editor, The New Yorker, since 1997. General editor Lives series Lipper Viking Penguin.
(Clear, precise, graceful...(Atlas') biographical style ma...)
Married Anna O'Conor Sloane Fels, August 2, 1975. Children: Amelia Eyre, William Easton.