Elaine's Fans (1)

Elaine Feinstein

Author profile

born

October 24, 1930 in Bootle, Lancashire, The United Kingdom

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

About this author

edit data

Elaine Feinstein was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as an editor for Cambridge University Press (1960-62), as Lecturer in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College (1963-6), as Assistant Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Essex (1967-70), and as a journalist.

She has contributed to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, and was formerly Writer in Residence for the British Council in Singapore and Tromsø, Norway.

Of Russian-Jewish ancestry, she has been influenced by Russian writers, especially Marina Tsvetayeva and Anna Akhmatova.

She is the author of a number of plays for...more

combine editions
Books by Elaine Feinstein

Average rating: 4.18 · 923 ratings · 59 reviews · 45 distinct works

	Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet 3.52 avg rating — 107 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova 3.55 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Pushkin: A Biography 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, Elaine Feinstein (Translator) 4.39 avg rating — 702 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Lawrence and the Women: The Intimate Life of D. H. Lawrence 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Three Russian Poets: Margaret Aliger, Yunna Moritz, Bella Akhmadulina 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	The Russian Jerusalem 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	The Border: A Novel 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Marina Tsvetayeva 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Collected Poems and Translations 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating: