Hermione Lee

Penelope Fitzgerald

A Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Reviewâ s 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916â 2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 633734
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780099546597
• ISBN-10: 0099546590
• Artikelnr.: 41150601

Autorenporträt

Hermione Lee is a biographer, critic, and teacher of literature. Her previous books include the internationally acclaimed biography, Virginia Woolf ('One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful', Financial Times) and Edith Wharton ('A feat of exhaustive research... a glorious biography', Independent on Sunday), as well as books on Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather and Philip Roth. Her collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts, was published in 2005, and her Biography: A Very Short Introduction in 2009. She is the President of Wolfson College Oxford. In 2013 she was made a Dame for services to Literary Scholarship. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.

Rezensionen

Excellent... [Hermione] Lee is a perfect choice as Fitzgerald's biographer. She has done a superb job, capturing an elusive personality and a complex, sometimes rather harrowing story. Philip Hensher Guardian