An American in Paris -- Making up -- Pussy Jones -- Italian backgrounds -- The Decoration of Houses -- The republic of letters -- Obligations -- The legend -- Friends in England -- Mme. Warthon -- ...

This is the book Edith Wharton wouldn't want you to read. Hermione Lee's biography, "Edith Wharton" is a large text, and heavily detailed. More detailed, it would seem, than Wharton would have ...

2013-05-19T18:00:35-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/01b/20130519182559002_hd.jpgHermione Lee talked about the process of writing biographies and the lives of ...

Distinguished biographer Hermione Lee is known for her writings on the lives of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, among other subjects. Now her much-anticipated biography of Edith Wharton has been ...

The acclaimed biographer’s life of the widely admired playwright and screenwriter follows her works about Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and others. By Charles McGrath Every other year, at a botanical ...