Imatge de l'autor

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)

Autor/a de Sleepless Nights

22+ obres 2,399 Membres 56 Ressenyes 5 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Elizabeth Hardwick was born on July 27, 1916, in Lexington, Kentucky. Hardwick earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kentucky, then she enrolled at Columbia University for additional study. Formerly an adjunct associate professor of English at Barnard College in New mostra'n més York, Hardwick has spent most of her adult life writing novels and essays. Hardwick's first novel, The Ghostly Lover, a story about a Kentucky family, was published in 1945. Since then, Hardwick has also written the novels The Simple Truth and Sleepless Nights. Her books of essays include A View of My Own, Sight-Readings: American Fiction, and Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature. Once nominated for the National Book Award, Seduction and Betrayal focuses on American writers, especially women writers, including Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Anne Porter, among others. The founder and advisory editor of the New York Review of Books, Hardwick's works have appeared in periodicals such as The New Yorker, The London Times Literary Supplement, and Harper's. She died at the age of 91 on December 2, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Obres de Elizabeth Hardwick

Obres associades

Northanger Abbey (1817) — Epíleg, algunes edicions21,479 exemplars
Daisy Miller (1878) — Introducció, algunes edicions3,593 exemplars
La consciència de Zeno (1930) — Preface, algunes edicions3,556 exemplars
A Bend in the River (1979) — Introducció, algunes edicions3,177 exemplars
Dom Casmurro (1899) — Pròleg, algunes edicions2,012 exemplars
Pàl.lid cavall, pàl.lid genet (1939) — Introducció, algunes edicions915 exemplars
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 774 exemplars
Morte d'Urban (1962) — Introducció, algunes edicions576 exemplars
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Col·laborador — 354 exemplars
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Col·laborador — 275 exemplars
The Unpossessed (1934) — Introducció, algunes edicions231 exemplars
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Col·laborador — 217 exemplars
Granta 32: History (1990) — Col·laborador — 151 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1991 (1991) — Col·laborador — 142 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1992 (1992) — Col·laborador — 138 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1988 (1988) — Col·laborador — 97 exemplars
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (1958) — Col·laborador — 80 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 74 exemplars
The Selected Letters of William James (1961) — Editor — 65 exemplars
The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics: A Selection (2019) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1981 (1981) — Col·laborador — 35 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1980 (1980) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1960 (1960) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1946 (1946) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1947 (1947) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1949 (1949) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
The Paris Review 96 1985 Summer (1985) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

Etiquetat

1001 (124) 1001 books (154) Anglaterra (352) Anglès (191) antologia (242) assaigs (526) Austen (285) britànic (327) clàssic (1,102) clàssics (1,273) Dones (124) Ficció (4,025) gothic (395) humor (136) Italià (138) Itàlia (174) Jane Austen (449) Kindle (178) Literatura (931) literatura anglesa (354) Literatura britànica (354) Literatura clàssica (137) literatura italiana (210) literatura nord-americana (351) Llegit (356) Llibre electrònic (205) no ficció (237) no llegit (207) Nord-americà (185) novel·la (831) NYRB (126) own (179) pendent de llegir (1,681) Regency (227) Relats curts (237) Romanç (665) segle XIX (718) segle XX (224) sàtira (238) Àfrica (237)

Coneixement comú

Nom normalitzat
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Altres noms
Prynne, Xavier
Data de naixement
1916-07-27
Data de defunció
2007-12-02
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Lloc de defunció
New York, New York, USA
Llocs de residència
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educació
University of Kentucky
Columbia University
Professions
novelist
short story writer
essayist
literary critic
editor
biographer (mostra-les totes 7)
writing teacher
Relacions
Lowell, Robert (former husband)
Organitzacions
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1977)
New York Review of Books
Premis i honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1974)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1947)
Biografia breu
Elizabeth Hardwick was born to a large, strict Protestant family in Lexington, Kentucky. She earned a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Kentucky, graduating in 1939, and moved to New York City. There she studied for a Ph.D. at Columbia University, but dropped out in 1941 to focus on her writing. Her experience as a young Southern woman in Manhattan provided the background for her debut novel, The Ghostly Lover, published in 1945. She published two more novels, including Sleepless Nights (1979), a partly autobiographical work. Hardwick developed an elegant, analytical voice that became her trademark as an essayist and critic for intellectual and literary journals such as Partisan Review. She edited The Selected Letters of William James (1961), published the essay collection A View of My Own (1962), and helped to found The New York Review of Books in 1963. NYRB became the principal outlet for her literary criticism, which later appeared in four volumes including Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature (1974) and Sight-Readings (1998). She also wrote a biography of Herman Melville that appeared in 2000. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Hardwick taught writing seminars at Barnard College and Columbia University, becoming a mentor to students. She was married to poet Robert Lowell, with whom she had a daughter, from 1949 until 1972, a relationship The New York Times characterized as "restless and emotionally harrowing."

Membres

Ressenyes

Posiblemente la obra más crítica de Elizabeth Hardwick, Seducción y traición es un retrato apasionado sobre las mujeres y la literatura. Una galería de escritoras inolvidables ?Virginia Woolf y Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth y Jane Carlyle?, así como una reflexión provocadora de obras como Cumbres borrascosas, Hedda Gabler y los poemas de Sylvia Plath. Una lectura que, en realidad, es un ajuste de cuentas con las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres, mujeres y escritura, escritura y vida.… (més)
 
Marcat
bibliotecayamaguchi | Dec 29, 2023 |
To be plunged into again. Heard distantly of hardwick before but didn’t really know about her. The Kentucky grounding was a nice surprise.
 
Marcat
sirk.bronstad | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Nov 14, 2023 |
Slim yet dense. So much goes on yet nothing happens. There's a story somewhere yet there is no narrative. I'm just running out of conjunctions over here.

It's obvious why this book is considered a seminal text among many of the authors that I love. The structure of Jenny Offill's Dept. Of Speculation is reminiscent of the random paragraphs in Sleepless Nights; there are tons of loose and fragmented thoughts with no sense of cohesion to the statements written just before. Rachel Cusk's protagonist in Outline also feels like the direct descendant of this novel in the sense that readers only learn about the narrators via their experiences with others. I even get some Maggie Nelson energy, but maybe I'm just grasping at straws.

This didn't floor me like I hoped it would. If push came to shove I'd describe the plot as nonexistent and the writing as uneven, but I appreciate its wit, intelligence, and significance.

OH - naming your protagonist after yourself? BALLER MOVE. Mother of autofiction ooooor?
… (més)
1 vota
Marcat
cbwalsh | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Sep 13, 2023 |
Incredibly beautiful words that flow and captivate imagination and interest. I truly enjoyed reading this series of delightful essays with an exquisite almost magical take on ordinary people and scenes. A joy for the senses of a reader!
 
Marcat
c.archer | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | May 25, 2023 |

Llistes

Premis

Potser també t'agrada

Autors associats

Estadístiques

Obres
22
També de
32
Membres
2,399
Popularitat
#10,697
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
56
ISBN
72
Llengües
7
Preferit
5

Gràfics i taules