Hermione Lee is a biographer, critic, teacher of literature, and
president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Among her many
works are literary biographies of Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf and
Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, which won the James Tait
Black Prize and the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2014.
She is also the author of critical books on Elizabeth Bowen and
Philip Roth. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal
Society of Literature, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was made a CBE in 2003
for services to literature, and a DBE in 2013 for services to
literary scholarship. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.
www.hermionelee.com
"The most distinguished study of Woolf yet". -- The New Republic
A professor of English at the University of York gives us a tough new Woolf.
"The most distinguished study of Woolf yet". -- The New Republic
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