'It's what many people have been waiting for, a balanced and sensible study... This is a very good biography' Doris Lessing, Sunday Times
Hermione Lee's books include the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf, a collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts, and a study of Elizabeth Bowen. She has written on many American authors, from Willa Cather to Philip Roth. She is a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, and, in 2006, Chair of the judges for the Man-Booker Prize. She is the first woman Goldsmiths' Professor of English at Oxford University, a Fellow of New College Oxford, of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 for services to literature.
An outstanding achievement...superb -- Selena Hastings * Sunday
Telegraph *
It is a lasting, and even a great, book. These are not terms one
gets to use often, or should ever use lightly -- Michael
Cunningham, author of The Hours
Lee's book is not only very good, but very necessary -- Penelope
Fitzgerald
One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving,
eloquent, powerful * Financial Times *
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