1: The Biography Channel
2: Exemplary Lives
3: Warts and All
4: National Biography
5: Fallen Idols
6: Against Biography
7: Public Roles
8: Telling the Story
Hermoine Lee is a well-known literary biographer, author of
critical studies of Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, and Philip Roth.
She has also written major biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996),
and Edith Wharton (2007), a selection of which was published by
Princeton University Press as Virginia Woolf's Nose (2005). From
1998 to 2008 she was the Goldsmiths' Professor of English
Literature and a Fellow of New College at the University of
Oxford. She is now President of Wolfson College.
It would be hard to think of anyone better to provide a crisp
contribution to OUP's Very Short Introductions.
*Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian*
A sophisticated overview for the general reader.
*Andrew Lycett, Literary Review*
Enjoyable book on the subject.
*Henry Power, TLS*
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