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Hermione Lee is a literary biographer and Professor Emeritus of English Literature. She was President of Wolfson College Oxford from 2008 to 2017 where she founded the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing in 2011. Her publications include biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and Penelope Fitzgerald, which won the James Tait Black Prize and was one of the New York Times’s 10 best books of 2014, books on Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth, and books on life-writing: Biography: A Very Short Introduction and Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing. She was awarded the 2020 Bio Award for her contribution to advancing the art of biography. Her biography of Tom Stoppard was published in October 2020 to great acclaim. It will be published in the USA in February 2021. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, where she serves on the Council, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, she was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship.
