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A biography of Vita Sackville-West.

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Vita by Victoria Glendinning

A biography of Vita Sackville-West.

Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster, and novelist who was born in Sheffield, England, and studied Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford. Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, published in 1977; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, published in 1981, which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Award (for biography) and the Duff Cooper Prize; and Rebecca West: A Life, published in 1987, are among her notable bios. Both Vita: The Life of V. and Vita: The Life of V. The Whitbread Biography Prize was won by Sackville-West (1983) and Trollope (1992). Leonard Woolf (M&S, 2006) is her most recent biography. Glendinning has also written three novels: The Grown-Ups (1989), Electricity (1995), and Flight (M&S, 2004), a tale about love and treachery set in the realm of international commerce.

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ISBN 13 9780297783060
ISBN 10 0297783068
Title Vita
Author Victoria Glendinning
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1983-09-01
Number of pages 472
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.