According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography ...

Hermione Lee, a professor of English literature at Britain’s University of York, has written “Virginia Woolf,” a formidably long yet utterly satisfactory life story. Even readers familiar with Woolf ...

Virginia Woolf‘s “Orlando: A Biography” is a centuries-spanning tale of a nobleman who, after a slumber that runs through several nights, metamorphoses into a woman. Inspired by and dedicated to Woolf ...

The English author Virginia Woolf is one of the 20th century’s literary giants, renowned for the pioneering stream-of-consciousness style she immortalized in novels like To the Lighthouse and Mrs.

Virginia Woolf’s fantastical 1928 feminist novel “Orlando: A Biography,” inspired by her lover Vita Sackville-West, charts 300 years of an invented life that starts as a boy’s and changes into a woman ...

“Someone once asked me, ‘Why don’t you write your biography?’ I replied, ‘Because fucking Virginia Woolf wrote my biography in 1928.’” So muses director Paul B. Preciado at the start of his ...

As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a professor ...

BURLINGTON, Mass. — Virginia Woolf has been dead for nearly 80 years, but she continues to be a looming presence in modern culture. An opera based on her gender-bending novel, “Orlando,” recently ...