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I.On April 18th of this year, Blake Bailey, 58, the author of Philip Roth: The Biography, was abruptly dropped by his literary agency, the Story Company. His book had been published on April 6th,

At the start of her eighth grade year, Heather was struggling. She was insecure, and lonely, and she wasn’t getting along with her mom. She worried that she wasn’t popular enough, or attractive enough, and that she’d never have a boyfriend. These insecurities were hard to talk about. The one place she felt comfortable expressing them was in Mr. Bailey’s English class. By 1998, when Heather entered eighth grade, the 35-year-old Blake Bailey was already a legend at Lusher Extension, a magnet middle school in New Orleans. A published author, he was funny, charismatic, and academically de...

More than 20 years before I got up the courage to send an open letter to the New York Times accusing my former English teacher Blake Bailey of grooming his eighth grade students and then, years later, coercing us into sex—or, in my case, just holding me down and doing it even while I cried “no” and “stop” repeatedly—I sent a very different letter on his behalf. I wrote his nomination for the Louisiana Humanities Teacher of the Year in 2000, an award he went on to win. Advertisement I described how he gave me the language to discuss poetry and literature, how he insisted that his s...

Blake Bailey, 57, published the only authorized biography of Roth on April 6 The book, a decade in the writing, was one of the publishing events of the year On Wednesday the publishers took the extraordinary step of pulling the book Two women accuse Bailey of rape, and five more former students spoke out One woman claims he raped her in 2015 at a friend's house in New Jersey The other, a former student, said he raped her in a hotel in New Orleans in 2003 Bailey has denied the allegations and threatened to sue for libel