Hemingway, A Life without Consequences, Mellow.

James R. Mellow was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1926, and attended Northwestern University. Beginning in 1950, he wrote about art and literature for Commonweal, ARTnews, and Arts Magazine, eventually becoming editor of the latter. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was an art critic for The New York Times. Mellow's books of literary biography include: Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company (1974), Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (1980), Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (1984) and Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (1992). He also wrote a biography of the photographer Walker Evans, which was published posthumously in 1999. Mellow died at his home in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1997.

James Robert Mellow était un critique d'art et biographe américain. Après avoir commencé sa carrière artistique au milieu des années 1950, Mellow a principalement occupé des postes éditoriaux pour Arts Magazine et Industrial Design pendant les années 1960.