Writing Lives (on The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm; Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by Jay Tolson; Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown; Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier; & City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara by Brad Gooch)

Greg Johnson, whose reviews have appeared regularly in our pages across many years, has published two novels, five collections of short stories, and several volumes of nonfiction. He lives in Atlanta and teaches in the graduate writing program at Kennesaw State University.