Hermione Lee


Dame Hermione Lee

Born (1948-02-29) 29 February 1948
Winchester, Hampshire, England
OccupationBiographer, literary critic and academic
Education
Notable worksThe Novels of Virginia Woolf; Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up; Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing
Notable awardsDame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
SpouseJohn Barnard
Website
www.hermionelee.com

Dame Hermione Lee (born 29 February 1948) is a British biographer, literary critic and academic. She 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. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.