

Her first book, The Novels of Virginia Woolf, was published in 1977. She is also a regular reviewer for various newspapers and magazines, including the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. A judge for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1981, Hermione Lee presented Channel 4 Television's first book programme, 'Book Four', between 19 and is a regular broadcaster for BBC radio.

She is Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, Oxford. Critic and biographer Hermione Lee was born in Winchester, England in 1948 and grew up in London.Īfter graduating from Oxford University, she lectured in America and taught at the Universities of Liverpool and York.
