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HARDWICK, Elizabeth was born on July 27, 1916 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Eugene Allen Hardwick and Mary (nee Ramsey) Hardwick.
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In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.
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The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.
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Excerpt from View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Society Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope. In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires - this is a benevolent form. The ideal self expressed in letters is not a crudely sugary affair except in dreary personalities; in any case the ideal is very much a part of the character, having its twenty-four hours a day to get through, and being no less unique in its combinations than one's fingerprints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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HARDWICK, Elizabeth was born on July 27, 1916 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Eugene Allen Hardwick and Mary (nee Ramsey) Hardwick.
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, University Kentucky, 1938. Master of Arts in English Literature, University Kentucky, 1939. Postgraduate, Columbia University, 1941.
She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. In 1959, Hardwick published in Harper"s, "The Decline of Book Reviewing," a generally harsh and even scathing critique of book reviews published in American periodicals of the time. The 1962 New York City newspaper strike helped inspire Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Jason Epstein, Barbara Epstein, and Robert B. Silvers to establish The New York Review of Books, a publication that became as much a habit for many readers as The New York Times Book Review, which Hardwick had eviscerated in her 1959 essay.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Hardwick taught writing seminars at Barnard College and Columbia University"s School of the Arts, Writing Division.
She gave forthright critiques of student writing and was a mentor to students she considered promising. From 1949 to 1972 she was married to the poet Robert Lowell.
Their daughter is Harriet Lowell. In 2008, The Library of America selected Hardwick"s account of Caryl Chessman"s crimes for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime writing.
She died in 2007 in Manhattan.
(The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of co...)
(In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the pa...)
(Excerpt from View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Soc...)
(Excerpt from View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Soc...)
(View Of My Own, A: Essays In Literature And Society, by H...)
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Member American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters (Gold medal for criticism 1993), Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Robert Lowell, July 28, 1949 (divorced October 1972). 1 child, Harriet Winslow Lowell.