The most important biographer of the twentieth century writes about his craft.
Frederick 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 was, also, general editor and volume co-editor of the Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, five volumes of which have appeared.
