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Hermione Lee has 6 past events. (show)  Hermione Lee Hermione Lee ( Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters, Penelope Fitzgerald) 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 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 (added from Random House)… (more)
 Hermione Lee Hermione Lee ( Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters, Penelope Fitzgerald) 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 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 (added from Random House)… (more)
Facing the World Laura Cumming, A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits.; Hermione Lee, Biography: A Very Short Introduction.; Giles WaterfieldHow do artists portray themselves on canvas, and how does this compare with the way words paint a character? In A Face to the World, Laura Cumming produced a beautifully written narrative on the autobiographical art of self-portraiture and what it tells us about the artist and ourselves. Laura Cumming is art critic of The Observer. Hermione Lee, the renowned literary biographer of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, recently published Biography: A Very Short Introduction. Giles Waterfield, curator and novelist, brings them face to face in a conversation about the power of words and images both to reveal and to conceal. (DeadGoodBooks)… (more)
Hermione Lee Hermione Lee promotes Edith Wharton. The distinguished English literary scholar Lee has written the definitive biography of American author Edith Wharton, and she discusses Wharton in this latest in our acclaimed “University in the Library” series. Lee’s new masterpiece, Edith Wharton, follows in the wake of another much-honored biography of Virginia Woolf, and gives us revealing glimpses of Wharton’s intriguing life and notable literary work. This program is particularly suited to students; paperback copies will be for sale. (christiguc)… (more)
Hermione Lee Hermione Lee reads from Edith Wharton. She definitively figured out Virginia Woolf, and now revered biographer Hermione Lee explores with authority the fascinating life of the author who penned such classics as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. (ablachly)
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Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Cause of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Agents | | Short biography | Hermione Lee was born in Winchester, England, and grew up in London. She was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, City of London School for Girls, and Queen's College, London, before earning a First in English literature at Oxford University and then an MPhil degree. She began her academic career at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA, and went on to teach at Liverpool University, the University of York (1977-1998), and New College, Oxford, where she was the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and the first female fellow. In 2008, she was elected President of Wolfson College at Oxford. She has written widely on women writers, American literature, and modern fiction. Prof. Lee's books include The Novels of Virginia Woolf (1977), Elizabeth Bowen: An Estimation (1981); Philip Roth (1982), Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up (1989), the biography Virginia Woolf (1996), and Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (2013), winner of the James Tait Black Prize. She has also edited and introduced numerous editions and anthologies of Kipling, Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Penelope Fitzgerald. She was one of the co-editors of the Oxford Poets Anthologies from 1999 to 2002.
She is also well known for her book reviews in The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and other media. She served as jury chair for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006, and has judged many other literary prizes. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  | |
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