Hermione Lee author biography, plus links to books by Hermione Lee.

Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee is a biographer, critic, teacher of literature, and president of Wolfson College, Oxford. Among her many works are literary biographies of Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton, and critical books on Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was made a CBE in 2003 for services to literature, and a DBE in 2013 for services to literary scholarship. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.

This biography was last updated on 11/18/2014.

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