Dame Hermione Lee was born on 29 February 1948 and is a British biographer, literary critic and academic.
16 Facts About Hermione Lee
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Hermione Lee is a former President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a former Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College.
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Hermione Lee is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Hermione Lee was educated at the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle, City of London School for Girls, and Queen's College, London.
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Hermione Lee took a first-class degree in English Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1968 and an MPhil at St Cross College, Oxford, in 1970.
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Hermione Lee has taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, at the University of Liverpool and at the University of York, from 1977 to 1998, where she held a personal chair in the Department of English and Related Literature, and where she received an Honorary DLitt in 2007.
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Hermione Lee is a lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.
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Hermione Lee is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and St Cross College, Oxford; and a member of the Athenaeum Club.
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Hermione Lee has written widely on women writers, American literature, life-writing, and modern fiction.
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Hermione Lee's books include The Novels of Virginia Woolf ; a study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen ; a short critical book, the first published in Britain, on Philip Roth and a critical biography of the American novelist Willa Cather, Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up.
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Hermione Lee has edited and introduced numerous editions and anthologies of Kipling, Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Penelope Fitzgerald.
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Hermione Lee was one of the co-editors of the Oxford Poets Anthologies from 1999 to 2002.
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Hermione Lee is known for her reviews, including for The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and her work in the media.
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Hermione Lee chaired the Judges for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006, and has judged many other literary prizes.
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Hermione Lee has served on the literature advisory panels of the Arts Council and the British Council.
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In writing her major biography of Tom Stoppard, Hermione Lee was granted unprecedented access to the playwright's papers, letters and diaries, and conducted extensive interviews with key figures such as Felicity Kendal, Trevor Nunn, and Stoppard himself.