Adam C. Begley[1] (born 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American biographer.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1982, and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1989.
[6] He lives with his wife, Anne Cotton, in Great Gidding, Cambridgeshire.
He is the author of biographies of John Updike[7] and the 19th-century French photographer Nadar.
His biography of Harry Houdini appeared in the Yale Jewish Lives series.