Elizabeth Hardwick





Elizabeth Hardwick

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born
July 27, 1916 in Lexington, Kentucky, The United States

died
December 04, 2007

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Elizabeth Hardwick was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.

Hardwick graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. She was the author of three novels: The Ghostly Lover (1945), The Simple Truth (1955), and Sleepless Nights (1979). A collection of her short fiction, The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick, will be published in 2010. She also published four books of criticism: A View of My Own (1962), Seduction and Betrayal (1974), Bartleby in Manhattan (1983), and Sight-Readings (1998). In 1961 she edited The Selected Letters of William James and in 2000 she published a short biography, Herman Melville, in Viking Press's Penguin Lives series..

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Sleepless Nights
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Herman Melville
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American Fictions
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The Ghostly Lover
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A View Of My Own: Essays On...
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The Best American Essays 1986
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Bartleby In Manhattan: And ...
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“The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.”
Elizabeth Hardwick

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
Elizabeth Hardwick

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
Elizabeth Hardwick

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