Research New England Books Etc. A Short Proust and a Long Bellow Biographer and editor James Atlas tells stories of real lives. For an investment house, the offices of Lipper and Company in New York City are unusual.
Walls are few, and many are of glass.
The books are from Lipper Publications, whose nerve center is just a few feet away, where James Atlas '71, series editor of the biographies, looks out onto Park Avenue from his roomful of books. In Atlas's publishing enclave, things are even quieter than elsewhere. Others are reading, too. The biographies of Proust, Saint Augustine, and Crazy Horse have made bestseller lists. Two dozen more titles are in the works.