Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a
Greyhound bus 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, romantic escapades and dustups
with authors she eviscerated in The New York Review of Books, of
which she was a cofounder. She formed lasting friendships with
literary notables—including Mary McCarthy, Adrienne Rich and
Susan Sontag—who appreciated her sharp wit and relish for gossip,
progressive politics and great literature. Hardwick’s life and
writing were shaped by a turbulent 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 emerged from the scandal with the
clarity and wisdom that illuminate her brilliant work—most
notably Sleepless Nights, a daring, lyrical and keenly perceptive
collage of reflections and glimpses of people encountered as they
stumble through lives of deprivation or privilege. A Splendid
Intelligence finally gives Hardwick her due as one of the great
postwar cultural critics. Ranging over a broad territory—from the
depiction of women in classic novels to the civil rights movement,
from theatre in New York to life in Brazil, Kentucky and
Maine—Hardwick’s essays remain strikingly original, fiercely
opinionated and exquisitely wrought. In this lively and
illuminating biography, Cathy Curtis offers an intimate portrait of
an exceptional woman who vigorously forged her own identity on and
off the page.
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