Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick was co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books since 1963, and contributor of more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to these pages. We present here a selection of pieces by and about her.

—The Editors

By Elizabeth Hardwick

September 23, 1963: The Gang

June 15, 2000: Melville in Love

January 21, 1988: Mrs. Wharton in New York

April 22, 1965: Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness

August 18, 1988: Church Going

November 6, 2003: Funny as a Crutch

December 21, 1967: The Little Foxes Revived

A full list of Hardwick's work in the Review can be found here.

On Elizabeth Hardwick

February 14, 2008: On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
by Darryl Pinckney and Joan Didion

January 17, 2008: Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
by Derek Walcott

June 14, 1979: Beyond the Evidence
by Diane Johnson

On Sleepless Nights
by Geoffrey O'Brien

On Seduction and Betrayal
by Joan Didion