Rediscover a lost American classic: Sleepless Nights, a kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, here reissued with a new introduction by Eimear McBride.
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and
educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. She
was one of the great critics and intellectuals of her time. As
co-founder of The New York Review of Books, she contributed more
than a hundred pieces to the magazine, as well as writing fiction
for the Partisan Review and New Yorker. She authored three novels,
a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays, and
was the recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters and the Lifetime Achievement Citation from the National
Book Critics Circle. Hardwick was married to the poet Robert Lowell
from 1949 to 1972 and their collected correspondence, The Dolphin
Letters, will be published in 2019.
Eimear McBride is the author of two novels: The Lesser Bohemians
(James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
(Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the
Goldsmiths Prize, and others). She was the inaugural creative
fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and
occasionally writes for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman and the
Irish Times.
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