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Lyndall Gordon

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Biography

A much-celebrated biographer, Lyndall Gordon lives in Oxford. Her ability to make the subjects of her biographies come vividly to life has won her many literary awards, including the Cheltenham Prize and the James Tait Black prize. She has also been long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

 

Her ninth book, LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: Emily Dickinson and her Family’s Feuds, which has uncovered stunning new material on Emily Dickinson was published by Virago in the UK in February 2010 and by Viking in the US in June 2010 to fantastic reviews. Virago have also re-issued her biography of Virginia Woolf in 2007 and her Charlotte Bronte biography in 2008. 

 

Candia McWilliam calls her 'a rare phenomenon: a biographer whose preoccupations and authorial career reveal a flowering towards imaginative truth' and Brenda Maddox talks of her 'adventurous scholarship'.

 

 

 

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