Anita Brookner
Art and Life
$50.70
- Hardcover
448 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
The groundbreaking biography of Booker Prize-winning novelist and art historian Anita Brookner, from one of our leading literary biographers. Hermione Lee reveals the full story of a brilliant, idiosyncratic and complex woman and goes deep into Anita Brookner’s marvellous work in all its stylishness and daring.
Born in south London in 1928, Brookner came from a family of middle-class, Polish-Jewish immigrants. Her parents were anxious and unhappy. Until she was well i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784744687 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784744689 |
| Author: | Hermione Lee |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 156mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee is a biographer, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, and former President of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Her writings include biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006), Penelope Fitzgerald (2013), and Tom Stoppard (2020).
She is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2024, she was made a Dame Grand Cross (GBE) for services to literary scholarship and literature.
She lives in Oxford.
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