Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)

From the Review

May 10, 2007: Storms Over the Novel

The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley

How Novels Work by John Mullan

The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life by Edward Mendelson

The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes edited by Franco Moretti

Nation & Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day by Patrick Parrinder

The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography and Culture edited by Franco Moretti

How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide by John Sutherland

November 4, 2004: Passionate Pilgrim

The Cruise of the Vanadis by Edith Wharton, with photographs by Jonas Dovydenas

August 12, 2004: Comic, Sad and Indefinite

Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women by Rosemary Dinnage

October 4, 2001: The Unknown Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910 selected and with notes by Maureen Howard

Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937 selected and with notes by Maureen Howard

September 20, 2001: On Eudora Welty (1909–2001)

April 12, 2001: Tracking the Untrackable

Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes

Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding David Ellis

Reflections on Biography Paula R. Backscheider

December 16, 1999: Unfinished Women

Ellen Glasgow: A Biography by Susan Goodman

Books by Hermione Lee

Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up (2000)
Virginia Woolf (1999)