New York: Knopf, 1978. Very good (some edgewear, light foxing on page edges, interior clean) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear). Publicity photograph of Bowen laid in (glossy still, 3/4 length, like the back panel of the dust jacket). 331 pages including index.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

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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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Librería: Barbara Bilson Books (US)
Inventario del vendedor #: 003036
Título: ELIZABETH BOWEN: A BIOGRAPHY
Autor: Glendinning, Victoria
Ilustrador: Photographs
Formato/Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Estado del libro: Usado
Edición: 1st American edition
ISBN 10: 0394405331
ISBN 13: 9780394405339
Editorial: Knopf
Lugar de publicación: New York
Fecha de publicación: 1978
Palabras clave: Women writers, biography, Ireland, England
Catálogos del vendedor: BIOGRAPHY;

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