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Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee a biographer and critic whose work includes biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Tom Stoppard. She was awarded the Biographers’ Club Prize for Exceptional Contribution to Biography in 2018. In 2003, Lee was made a CBE, in 2013 she was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship, and in 2023 she was made GBE (Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire) for services to English Literature.


Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

"A writer for whom nothing is alien and everything is possible"
September 26, 2023  By Hermione Lee
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On the Erudite Chaos of Tom Stoppard’s Most Complex Play

Hermione Lee Considers the Algorithmic Genius of Arcadia
February 24, 2021  By Hermione Lee
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