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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography | 2013 | Winner | “For its definitive, scrupulously researched biography of one of Britain's most beloved and original novelists.” |
About This Book
Hermione Lee's biography of the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) — who published her first novel at sixty and went on to win the Booker Prize — is a definitive work of literary biography. Lee traces Fitzgerald's remarkable family, her bohemian and often peripatetic life (including a period living on a sinking houseboat), and the compressed brilliance of her late fiction. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography in 2013.
About the Author
Hermione Lee is a British literary biographer and critic, widely regarded as one of the finest English-language practitioners of literary biography. Born in 1948, she was educated at Oxford and has taught at York, Oxford, and Princeton. She was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at Oxford and President of Wolfson College. Read more →
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