Hermione Lee grew up in London and was educated
at Oxford. She began her academic career as a lecturer in Williamsburg,
Virginia (Instructor, 1970-1971) and at Liverpool University
(Lecturer, 1971-1977). She taught at the University of York
from 1977, where over twenty years she was Lecturer, Senior
Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of English Literature. From
1998-2008 she was the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature
and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. In 2008
Lee was elected President of Wolfson College, University of
Oxford.
Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,
a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and
St Cross Colleges, Oxford. She has Honorary Doctorates from
Liverpool and York Universities. In 2003 she was made a Companion
of the British Empire for Services to Literature.
Her biography
of Edith Wharton is available in paperback from Vintage.
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Ford Madox Ford and France (BBC Radio)
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Hermione Lee presents Ford
Madox Ford and France with Julian Barnes for BBC Radio
4. A two-part series telling the story of Ford Madox Ford,
author of The Good Soldier and editor of a Paris-based
magazine which published James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and Jean
Rhys.
Visit
the programme mini-site.
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On Penelope Fitzgerald
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Since
her death ten years ago this month, Penelope Fitzgerald's reputation
has grown steadily. Once dismissed as a minor lady writer, she
is now recognised as one of the finest British novelists of
the last century. Her biographer Hermione Lee has been granted
access to her manuscripts, letters and, best of all, her library
of books with their many personal annotations.
Read
the essay at The Guardian website.
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Biography: A Very Short Introduction
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Biography: A Very Short Introduction
by Hermione Lee
Oxford
University Press
ISBN13: 9780199533541
ISBN10: 0199533547
Paperback, 144 pages
UK:
July 2009 (£7.99)
Canada:
August 2009 ($11.95)
US:
August 2009 ($11.95)
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Biography is one of
the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres.
But why do certain people and historical events
arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with
history and works of fiction? Does a biography need to be true?
Is it acceptable to omit or conceal things? Does the biographer
need to personally know the subject? Must a biographer be subjective?
In this Very Short Introduction Hermione Lee
considers the cultural and historical background of different
types of biographies, looking at the factors that affect biographers
and whether there are different strategies, ethics, and principles
required for writing about one person compared to another. She
also considers contemporary biographical publications and considers
what kind of 'lives' are the most popular and in demand.
MeettheAuthor.co.uk:
Watch this short video in which Hermione
Lee discusses the subject and development of her new book Biography:
A Very Short Introduction. (3:16)
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