Awards Ambassador Book Awards Description From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.
She is also a well-known critic, and is the Chair of the Judges for the Man Booker Prize, 2006..
Her books include the internationally acclaimed biography, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, and Body Parts: Essays on Life-writing.
About the author Hermione Lee is the first woman Goldsmiths\' Professor of English at Oxford University.
Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.
Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton\'s own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines.
Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France.
Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction.
Awards Ambassador Book Awards Description From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters
