Overview :As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermio... Read More
Overview :A group of notable writers--including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow--celebrate our fas... Read More
Overview :"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Wh... Read More
Overview :Introverted, friendless, and aloof, Heather Laurence loves being alone and wallowing in her imagination. She meets Stacy Warren, a girl who ... Read More
Overview :ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW' S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle TimesWinner of t... Read More
Overview :One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conv... Read More
Overview :Hermione Lee's provocative and influential biography provides a sensitive reappraisal of a marvelous and often underrated writer. The Willa ... Read More
Overview :What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness ... Read More
Overview :Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton... Read More