A SPLENDID INTELLIGENCE

The first biography of the extraordinary essayist and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semiautobiographical nove l Sleepless Nights.Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick boarded a Greyhound bus for New York City in 1939 and quickly made a name fo r herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included stretches of dire poverty/ lasting friendship s with literary luminaries (among them, Mary McCarthy)/ dustups with authors she eviscerated in the New York Review of Books (of whi ch she w...[Leer más]