Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee

Penelope Fitzgerald:  A Life by Hermione Lee is a 488-page hardcover published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf, and is a stated first United States edition.  The book is in very good condition. Book Summary The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century. Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty.  She would go on to win some of the most coveted awards in literature--the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in an impeccable match of talent between biographer and subject, Hermione Lee, a master biographer and one of Fitzgerald's greatest champions, gives us this remarkable writer's story.  Fitzgerald, born into an accomplished intellectual family, the granddaughter of two Bishops, led a life marked by dramatic twists of fate, moving from a Bishop's palace to a sinking houseboat to a last, late bla