A Splendid Intelligence - The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick (Hardcover)

Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick boarded a Greyhound bus to New York City in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included stretches of dire poverty; lasting friendships with literary luminaries (among them, Mary McCarthy); confrontations with authors she eviscerated in The New York Review of Books (of which she was a cofounder); and marriage to the poet Robert Lowell-whom she adored, standing by faithfully through his episodes of bipolar illness. Lowell's decision to publish excerpts from her private letters in The Dolphin greatly distressed Hardwick and ignited a major literary controversy. Hardwick imbued her essays with a novelistic flair and a wholly original outlook. In A Splendid Intelligence, biographer Cathy Curtis offers an intimate portrait of an exceptional woman who emerged from a long, turbulent marriage with the clarity and wisdom that illuminate her brilliant work.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Cathy Curtis
Dimensions:	239 x 160 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-324-00552-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-324-00552-1
Barcode:	9781324005520

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