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.
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