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Biographical note
Hermione Lee's previous books include the biographical studies Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather, the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton, longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. 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.Elegant, level-headed tidbits of higher journalism and light scholarship
Guardian
Fascinating
Independent
In its cleverness, intimacy and verve, Lee's own work is utterly engaging - perfect material in which to lose yourself between the sheets
- Lucasta Miller, Sunday Times
Enthralling...This is a superb, intriguing volume of literary curios
Scotland on Sunday
Everything Hermione Lee, who both writes and teaches biography, has written about the states of the biographer's art in recent years is worth re-reading
- Anne Chisholm, Spectator
A pleasure to read: clever, witty, sceptical and sensitive
Irish Times
A firework display of mental brilliance
- Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday
Grippingly vivid
Financial Times
Contains many incidental pleasures and fascinating facts
- Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph
Provocative
Observer