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Elizabeth Hardwick

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born

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

died

December 04, 2007

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Literature & Fiction, Literary Criticism

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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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Books by Elizabeth Hardwick

Average rating: 3.83 · 1,228 ratings · 218 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick, Geoffrey O'Brien (Introduction) 3.70 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature by Elizabeth Hardwick, Joan Didion (Introduction) 3.91 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Herman Melville 3.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The New York Stories by Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney (Introduction) 3.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	American Fictions 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Ghostly Lover 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sight-Readings: American Fictions 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	A View Of My Own: Essays On Literature And Society 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Essays 1986 by Elizabeth Hardwick (Editor), Robert Atwan (Series Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bartleby In Manhattan: And Other Essays 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

“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

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

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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
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