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font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Professor" title="Professor">Professor</a></div><br /><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Dame Hermione Lee</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Dame_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire">GBE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">FBA</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1948-02-29</span>) </span>29 February 1948<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 77)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Winchester,_Hampshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Winchester, Hampshire">Winchester, Hampshire</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Biographer, literary critic and academic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/St_Hilda%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St Hilda's College, Oxford">St Hilda's College, Oxford</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/St_Cross_College,_Oxford" title="St Cross College, Oxford">St Cross College, Oxford</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i>The Novels of Virginia Woolf</i>; <i>Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up</i>; <i>Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Dame_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire">Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">John Barnard</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hermionelee.com">www<wbr />.hermionelee<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dame Hermione Lee</b> (born 29 February 1948<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) is a British biographer, literary critic and academic. She is a former <a href="/wiki/President_(college)" class="mw-redirect" title="President (college)">President</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wolfson_College,_Oxford" title="Wolfson College, Oxford">Wolfson College, Oxford</a>, and a former Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> and Professorial Fellow of <a href="/wiki/New_College,_Oxford" title="New College, Oxford">New College</a>. She is a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a> and of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a>, Hampshire, daughter of Benjamin Lee (1922-2019), of Polish and Lithuanian Jewish parentage, and Josephine, née Anderson (died 2003),<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee grew up in London, where her father was a <a href="/wiki/General_practitioner" title="General practitioner">GP</a>. She was educated at the <a href="/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e_Fran%C3%A7ais_Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle">Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle</a>, <a href="/wiki/City_of_London_School_for_Girls" title="City of London School for Girls">City of London School for Girls</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_College,_London" title="Queen's College, London">Queen's College, London</a>. She took a first-class degree in English Literature at <a href="/wiki/St_Hilda%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St Hilda's College, Oxford">St Hilda's College, Oxford</a>, in 1968 and an MPhil at <a href="/wiki/St_Cross_College,_Oxford" title="St Cross College, Oxford">St Cross College, Oxford</a>, in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-Biog_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biog-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_career">Academic career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Academic career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee has taught at the <a href="/wiki/The_College_of_William_%26_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="The College of William & Mary">College of William and Mary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Liverpool" title="University of Liverpool">University of Liverpool</a> (where she was awarded an Honorary DLitt in 2002) and at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_York" title="University of York">University of York</a>, from 1977 to 1998, where she held a <a href="/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Academic ranks in the United Kingdom">personal chair</a> in the Department of English and Related Literature, and where she received an Honorary DLitt in 2007. Since 1998, she has been the Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and the first woman Professorial Fellow of <a href="/wiki/New_College,_Oxford" title="New College, Oxford">New College, Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lannan_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lannan-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She succeeded <a href="/wiki/Gareth_Roberts_(physicist)" title="Gareth Roberts (physicist)">Sir Gareth Roberts</a> as the sixth <a href="/wiki/President_(college)" class="mw-redirect" title="President (college)">President</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wolfson_College,_Oxford" title="Wolfson College, Oxford">Wolfson College, Oxford</a>, in 2008, serving until the end of academic year 2016–17. She is a lifetime Honorary Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Rothermere_American_Institute" title="Rothermere American Institute">Rothermere American Institute</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_fellowships">Honours and fellowships</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honours and fellowships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee is a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a>, a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a>, a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Rothermere_American_Institute" title="Rothermere American Institute">Rothermere American Institute</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>, an Honorary Fellow of <a href="/wiki/St_Hilda%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St Hilda's College, Oxford">St Hilda's</a> and <a href="/wiki/St_Cross_College,_Oxford" title="St Cross College, Oxford">St Cross College, Oxford</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-Biog_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biog-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a member of the <a href="/wiki/Athenaeum_Club,_London" title="Athenaeum Club, London">Athenaeum Club</a>. </p><p>Appointed a <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (CBE) in 2003 for services to literature,<sup id="cite_ref-bcounc_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bcounc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Dame_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Dame Commander</a> (DBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to literary scholarship,<sup id="cite_ref-gaz31712_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gaz31712-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and again to <a href="/wiki/Dame_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire">Dame Grand Cross</a> (GBE) in the <a href="/wiki/2023_New_Year_Honours" title="2023 New Year Honours">2023 New Year Honours</a> for services to English literature.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the US, Lee has been a Visiting Fellow teaching at the <a href="/wiki/Beinecke_Rare_Book_and_Manuscript_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library">Beinecke Library</a> at <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton</a>, an Everett Helm Visiting Fellow at the Lilly Library at the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_University_(Bloomington)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana University (Bloomington)">Indiana University at Bloomington</a>, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Public_Library" title="New York Public Library">New York Public Library</a>'s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004–05. In 2003, she became a Foreign Honorary Member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing">Writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee has written widely on women writers, American literature, life-writing, and modern fiction. Her books include <i>The Novels of Virginia Woolf</i> (1977); a study of the Anglo-Irish novelist <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen" title="Elizabeth Bowen">Elizabeth Bowen</a> (1981, revised 1999); a short critical book, the first published in Britain, on <a href="/wiki/Philip_Roth" title="Philip Roth">Philip Roth</a> (1982) and a critical biography of the American novelist <a href="/wiki/Willa_Cather" title="Willa Cather">Willa Cather</a>, <i>Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up</i> (1989, reissued in a revised edition by <a href="/wiki/Virago_Press" title="Virago Press">Virago</a> in 2008). </p><p>She published a major biography of <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a> (1996), which won the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a> <a href="/wiki/Rose_Mary_Crawshay_Prize" title="Rose Mary Crawshay Prize">Rose Mary Crawshay Prize</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-bcounc_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bcounc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was named as one of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a></i>′s best books of 1997. </p><p>Lee has published a collection of essays on biography and autobiography, <i>Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing</i> (2005), and a biography of <a href="/wiki/Edith_Wharton" title="Edith Wharton">Edith Wharton</a>, published to mixed reviews in 2007 by <a href="/wiki/Chatto_%26_Windus" title="Chatto & Windus">Chatto & Windus</a> and Knopf. In 2013 the playwright <a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a> asked her to write his biography. It was published in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She has edited and introduced numerous editions and anthologies of <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Kipling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Trollope" title="Anthony Trollope">Trollope</a>, Virginia Woolf, <a href="/wiki/Stevie_Smith" title="Stevie Smith">Stevie Smith</a>, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, <a href="/wiki/Eudora_Welty" title="Eudora Welty">Eudora Welty</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Fitzgerald" title="Penelope Fitzgerald">Penelope Fitzgerald</a>. She was one of the co-editors of the <i>Oxford Poets Anthologies</i> from 1999 to 2002. </p><p>Lee is also known for her reviews, including for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books" title="The New York Review of Books">The New York Review of Books</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and her work in the media. From 1982 to 1986, she presented <a href="/wiki/Channel_Four" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel Four">Channel Four</a>'s first books programme, <i>Book Four</i>, and she contributes regularly to <i><a href="/wiki/Front_Row_(radio_programme)" title="Front Row (radio programme)">Front Row</a></i> and other radio arts programmes.<sup id="cite_ref-Lannan_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lannan-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She chaired the Judges for the <a href="/wiki/Man_Booker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Man Booker Prize">Man Booker Prize</a> for Fiction in 2006, and has judged many other literary prizes. She has served on the literature advisory panels of the <a href="/wiki/Arts_Council_of_Great_Britain" title="Arts Council of Great Britain">Arts Council</a> and the <a href="/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council">British Council</a>. </p><p>In writing her major biography of <a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a> (2020), Lee was granted unprecedented access to the playwright's papers, letters and diaries, and conducted extensive interviews with key figures such as <a href="/wiki/Felicity_Kendal" title="Felicity Kendal">Felicity Kendal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a>, and Stoppard himself.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was announced in 2021 that <a href="/wiki/Chatto_%26_Windus" title="Chatto & Windus">Chatto & Windus</a> had signed a deal with Lee for her biography of writer <a href="/wiki/Anita_Brookner" title="Anita Brookner">Anita Brookner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee is married to Professor John Barnard, <a href="/wiki/Professor_Emeritus" class="mw-redirect" title="Professor Emeritus">Professor Emeritus</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Leeds" title="University of Leeds">University of Leeds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 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missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2014</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>1997 – <a href="/wiki/Rose_Mary_Crawshay_Prize" title="Rose Mary Crawshay Prize">Rose Mary Crawshay Prize</a> for <i>Virginia Woolf</i><sup id="cite_ref-bcounc_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bcounc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2003 – <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (CBE)<sup id="cite_ref-bcounc_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bcounc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2013 – <a href="/wiki/Dame_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (DBE)<sup id="cite_ref-gaz31712_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gaz31712-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2013 – <a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> for <i>Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life</i><sup id="cite_ref-bcounc_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bcounc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-award2014ed1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-award2014ed1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2015 – Plutarch Award for <i>Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life</i><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2023 – <a href="/wiki/Dame_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire">Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire</a> (GBE)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Partial_bibliography">Partial bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Partial bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Novels of Virginia Woolf</i> (1977)</li> <li><i>Elizabeth Bowen: An Estimation</i> (1981)</li> <li><i>Philip Roth</i> (1982)</li> <li><i>Willa Cather: Double Lives</i> (1989)</li> <li><i>Virginia Woolf</i> (1996)</li> <li><i>Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing</i> (2002)</li> <li><i>Virginia Woolf's Nose: Essays on Biography</i> (2005)</li> <li><i>Edith Wharton</i> (2007)</li> <li><i>Biography: A Very Short Introduction</i> (2009)</li> <li><i>Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life</i> (2013)</li> <li><i>Lives of Houses</i> (editor, with <a href="/wiki/Kate_Kennedy_(writer)" title="Kate Kennedy (writer)">Kate Kennedy</a>, 2020)</li> <li><i>Tom Stoppard: A Life</i> (2020)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 September</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Hermione+Lee&rft.pub=British+Council&rft.date=2008&rft.aulast=Procter&rft.aufirst=James&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fliterature.britishcouncil.org%2Fwriter%2Fhermione-lee&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gaz31712-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-gaz31712_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gaz31712_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGazette60534" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/60534/supplement/7">"No. 60534"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i> (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 7.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+60534&rft.pages=7&rft.date=2013-06-15&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F60534%2Fsupplement%2F7&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGazette63918" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/63918/supplement/N8">"No. 63918"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i> (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N8.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+63918&rft.pages=N8&rft.date=2022-12-31&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F63918%2Fsupplement%2FN8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/tom-stoppard-a-life-a-great-biography-of-a-great-playwright-1.4377923">"Tom Stoppard: A Life-A great biography of a great playwright"</a>. <i>www.irishtimes.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 October</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.irishtimes.com&rft.atitle=Tom+Stoppard%3A+A+Life-A+great+biography+of+a+great+playwright&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fculture%2Fbooks%2Ftom-stoppard-a-life-a-great-biography-of-a-great-playwright-1.4377923&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hermionelee">"Hermione Lee"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 July</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.hermionelee.com&rft.atitle=Hermione+Lee+Website%3A+Tom+Stoppard&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hermionelee.com%2Fstoppard.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLane2021" class="citation magazine cs1">Lane, Anthony (22 February 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/01/tom-stoppards-charmed-and-haunted-life">"Tom Stoppard's Charmed and Haunted Life"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0028-792X">0028-792X</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 July</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Tom+Stoppard%27s+Charmed+and+Haunted+Life&rft.date=2021-02-22&rft.issn=0028-792X&rft.aulast=Lane&rft.aufirst=Anthony&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Ftom-stoppards-charmed-and-haunted-life&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/chatto-signs-lees-biography-anita-brookner-1248734">"Chatto signs Lee's biography of Anita Brookner"</a>. <i>The Bookseller</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 July</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Bookseller&rft.atitle=Chatto+signs+Lee%27s+biography+of+Anita+Brookner&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebookseller.com%2Frights%2Fchatto-signs-lees-biography-anita-brookner-1248734&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/newpresident">"President-elect"</a>, Wolfson College.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-award2014ed1-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-award2014ed1_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/jtb-230814">"Authors join book prize's hall of fame"</a>. University of Edinburgh<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 August</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Authors+join+book+prize%27s+hall+of+fame&rft.pub=University+of+Edinburgh&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ed.ac.uk%2Fnews%2F2014%2Fjtb-230814&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150614105824/http://biographersinternational.org/2015-plutarch-award-goes-to-hermione-lees-penelope-fitzgerald/">"2015 Plutarch Award Presented to Hermione Lee's <i>Penelope Fitzgerald</i>"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 June</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=2015+Plutarch+Award+Presented+to+Hermione+Lee%27s+Penelope+Fitzgerald&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbiographersinternational.org%2F2015-plutarch-award-goes-to-hermione-lees-penelope-fitzgerald%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGazette63918" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/63918/supplement/N8">"No. 63918"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i> (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N8.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+63918&rft.pages=N8&rft.date=2022-12-31&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F63918%2Fsupplement%2FN8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Lee&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hermionelee.com/">Official website</a></span></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515543#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?49907">Appearances</a> on <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLouisa_Thomas2013" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Louisa Thomas (Summer 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6231/the-art-of-biography-no-4-hermione-lee">"Hermione Lee, The Art of Biography No. 4"</a>. <i>The Paris Review</i>. Summer 2013 (205).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Paris+Review&rft.atitle=Hermione+Lee%2C+The+Art+of+Biography+No.+4&rft.ssn=summer&rft.volume=Summer+2013&rft.issue=205&rft.date=2013&rft.au=Louisa+Thomas&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theparisreview.org%2Finterviews%2F6231%2Fthe-art-of-biography-no-4-hermione-lee&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHermione+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/newpresident/">Wolfson Presidency</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080423222121/http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/newpresident/">Archived</a> 23 April 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/hermione-lee">Hermione Lee</a> at <a 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Oxford</a> </b><br />2008–2018 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Philomen_Probert" title="Philomen Probert">Philomen Probert</a> <br /> (acting)</div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFF179;">Awards and achievements </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kate_Flint&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kate Flint (page does not exist)">Kate Flint</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Smith_(writer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ruth Smith (writer) (page does not exist)">Ruth Smith</a></li></ul></div></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Rose_Mary_Crawshay_Prize" title="Rose Mary 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