Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography
by GLENDINNING. VICTORIA
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Victoria Glendinning was born in the north of England and read French and Spanish at Oxford. Her first book was A Suppressed Cry , a family memoir about her Quaker great-aunt. She has written biographies of Edith Sitwell (which won the James Tait Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize), Vita Sackville-West (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Rebecca West, Anthony Trollope (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift, and Leonard Woolf. She co-edited Mothers and Sons with her son Matthew Glendinning, and has published three novels, The Grown-Ups , Electricity , and Flight . She reviews books for national newspapers and journals, has been a judge of the W. H. Smith Prize and other literary awards, and chair of the judges of the Booker Prize. From 2000-03 she was president of English PEN. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and was awarded a CBE in 1998.
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- Landscape Books (US)
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- 5078
- Title
- Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography
- Author
- GLENDINNING. VICTORIA
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, BOWEN, ELIZ, SARTON, MAY, WRITERS
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