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Hermione Lee's previous books include 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 *
