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Elizabeth Hardwick

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
July 26 1916
Died
0303 12 20072007
Elizabeth Hardwick was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.

Hardwick graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. She was the author of three novels: The Ghostly Lover , The Simple Truth , and Sleepless Nights . A collection of her short fiction, The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick, will be published in 2010. She also published four books of criticism: A View of My Own , Seduction and Betrayal , Bartleby in Manhattan , and Sight-Readings . In 1961 she edited The Selected Letters of William James and in 2000 she published a short biography, Herman Melville, in Viking Press's Penguin Lives series..

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 '70s and early '80s, 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 the Caryl Chessman murders for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime writing.

Elizabeth Hardwick

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
July 26 1916
Died
0303 12 20072007
Elizabeth Hardwick was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.

Hardwick graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. She was the author of three novels: The Ghostly Lover , The Simple Truth , and Sleepless Nights . A collection of her short fiction, The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick, will be published in 2010. She also published four books of criticism: A View of My Own , Seduction and Betrayal , Bartleby in Manhattan , and Sight-Readings . In 1961 she edited The Selected Letters of William James and in 2000 she published a short biography, Herman Melville, in Viking Press's Penguin Lives series..

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 '70s and early '80s, 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 the Caryl Chessman murders for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime writing.

Books from Elizabeth Hardwick

Sleepless Nights

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

4/5 ( ratings)

The New York Stories

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Unpossessed

3.4/5 ( ratings)

A Susan Sontag Reader

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Herman Melville

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Morte d'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle

4.3/5 ( ratings)

American Fictions

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Redburn

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Granta Bulgaria 7: градът

4/5 ( ratings)

Bartleby In Manhattan: And Other Essays

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Simple Truth

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Cloud the Horse: Cloud and Patty Chicken

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Ghostly Lover

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Seducción y traición

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Morte D'Urban

3.6/5 ( ratings)
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