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Her latest books are Edith Wharton (2008), shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) Biography: A Very Short Introduction (2009) and Penelope Fitzgerald (2013). She has also edited the popular anthology of women's short stories The Secret Self: Short Stories by Women (1985). She is the author of Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up, published in 1989, and her acclaimed biography of Virginia Woolf won the 1997 British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature. She has written critical studies of Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth and has edited editions of work by Stevie Smith, the American author Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Her first book, The Novels of Virginia Woolf, was published in 1977. She is also a regular reviewer for various newspapers and magazines, including the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. A judge for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1981, Hermione Lee presented Channel 4 Television's first book programme, 'Book Four', between 19 and is a regular broadcaster for BBC radio. She is Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Critic and biographer Hermione Lee was born in Winchester, England in 1948 and grew up in London.Īfter graduating from Oxford University, she lectured in America and taught at the Universities of Liverpool and York.

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