![]() ![]() Her comprehensive research and poised storytelling make this book almost everything you want a literary biography to be. ![]() The biography, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, by Hermione Lee is now on US shores, and Ms. Last year, I found out the book had just been published in the United Kingdom, and I fished about for a United States publication date, but got no definitive answer. ![]() Fitzgerald was often “elusive” in interviews and the publication of her biography is a major event. How and why this happened is one of the great literary stories of the 20th century. In literary terms, Fitzgerald was a slacker until her mid-50s, after which time she became a model of productivity and went on to win the Booker Prize, among other awards. ![]() Her last novel, The Blue Flower, has the music and luminosity of an epic poem. She wrote nine novels, and they are short - her readers know, however, that brevity is part of her brilliance. READING A Penelope Fitzgerald novel is a rare treat and not one you can overindulge in. ![]()
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