According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography ...

The English author Virginia Woolf is one of the 20th century’s literary giants, renowned for the pioneering stream-of-consciousness style she immortalized in novels like To the Lighthouse and Mrs.

Hermione Lee, a professor of English literature at Britain’s University of York, has written “Virginia Woolf,” a formidably long yet utterly satisfactory life story. Even readers familiar with Woolf ...

“Someone once asked me, ‘Why don’t you write your biography?’ I replied, ‘Because fucking Virginia Woolf wrote my biography in 1928.’” So muses director Paul B. Preciado at the start of his ...

Amir Kabir is the publisher of the book translated by Shafiqeh Keivan. It is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction originally published in 1933. Although Flush has adventures of his own with ...

Virginia Woolf’s fantastical 1928 feminist novel “Orlando: A Biography,” inspired by her lover Vita Sackville-West, charts 300 years of an invented life that starts as a boy’s and changes into a woman ...

Best known for her highly imaginative and nonlinear novels like Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and To the Lighthouse—and also perhaps because her name was borrowed for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward ...

Virginia Woolf‘s “Orlando: A Biography” is a centuries-spanning tale of a nobleman who, after a slumber that runs through several nights, metamorphoses into a woman. Inspired by and dedicated to Woolf ...

As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a professor ...

ON Friday, March 28th 1941 Virginia Woolf, having written another detailed farewell letter to her husband walked out of her garden and down towards the River Ouse. It was still cold but there were ...