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Hermione Lee
Body Parts
 
A collection of essays communicating the problems of reading and writing biography. The book explores the relationship between biography and fiction. Looking at writer's lives in connection with their work, Lee raises profound and intriguing issues about aspects of writing and reading a life.
 
Chatto and Windus 2005 hbk £20.00 ISBN 0-7011-7759-4
 
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth139
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,1391262,00.html
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2109862
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Hermione Lee
Edith Wharton
 
This masterly new biography of Edith Wharton paints a portrait of a fiercely modern author, writing of sex, love, money and war - a woman of strong convictions and conflicting ambitions and desires. Delving into every aspect of her extraordinary life story, the book shows in fascinating detail how she worked and what lies at the heart of her magnificent and elegant works.
 
Vintage 2008 Paperback £10.99 ISBN 978-0099763512
 
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth139
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n07/yeaz01_.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,2010260,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=Y3CK1QC5NIGALQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/arts/2007/02/04/bolee28.xml

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Hermione Lee
Virginia Woolf
 
A biography of Virginia Woolf which moves freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions. She is presented as occupying a distinct and even uneasy position within the Bloomsbury Set, and also as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist.
 
Vintage 1997 pbk £9.99 ISBN 0-09-973251-3
 
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth139
http://slate.msn.com/id/2989/
http://www.salon.com/may97/sneaks/sneak970516.html

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