The early novels drew on her own experiences – a boat on the Thames in the 1960s the BBC in war time a failing bookshop in Suffolk an eccentric stage-school. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. PENELOPE FITZGERALD: A LIFE (Chatto, November 2013) For Film & TV enquiries, please contact Charles Walker at United Agents. Smith Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in the USA.įor more information about the author, please visit her website. It was chosen as a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year, and short-listed for the W.H. Her biography of Virginia Woolf (winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Award) was published in 1996 and was greeted with great acclaim. Hermione Lee grew up in London, was educated at Oxford, began her academic career as a lecturer in Williamsburg, Virginia and at Liverpool, and taught at the University of York from 1977, where she was Professor of English until her recent appointment to the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford.
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