Virginia Woolf - Lee, Hermione

Biographie:
Hermione Lee grew up in London, and spent her childhood close to the streets, parks and buildings of Virginia Woolf's life and novels. After leaving Oxford, and lecturing for a year in America, she taught at the Universities of Liverpool and York, where she is now Professor of English Literature. She is also well known as a writer, reviewer and broadcaster. From 1982 to 1986 she presented Channel Four's first books programme, 'Book Four'. Her previous publications include a critical study of the novels of Virginia Woolf, a book on the writing of Elizabeth Bowen and a collection of Bowen's nonfiction, editions of Stevie Smith, Willa Cather and Woolf, and a popular anthology of short stories by women writers, The Secret Self, reissued and enlarged in 1995. Her 1989 critical biography, Willa Cather : A Life Saved Up, was enthusiastically received. Virginia Woolf won the 1997 British Academy Rose Mary Crawshaw Award. She is married, and lives in Yorkshire.