Biographie de Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee grew up in London, and spent her childhood close to the streets, parks and buildings of Virginia Woolf's life and novels. After leaving Oxford, and lecturing for a year in America, she taught at the Universities of Liverpool and York, where she is now Professor of English Literature. She is also well known as a writer, reviewer and broadcaster. From 1982 to 1986 she presented Channel Four's first books programme, 'Book Four'.
Her previous publications include a critical study of the novels of Virginia Woolf, a book on the writing of Elizabeth Bowen and a collection of Bowen's nonfiction, editions of Stevie Smith, Willa Cather and Woolf, and a popular anthology of short stories by women writers, The Secret Self, reissued and enlarged in 1995. Her 1989 critical biography, Willa Cather : A Life Saved Up, was enthusiastically received.
Virginia Woolf won the 1997 British Academy Rose Mary Crawshaw Award. She is married, and lives in Yorkshire.
