"Biographer, critic, broadcaster, and novelist, Victoria Glendinning was born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Modern Languages. Her acclaimed biographies include Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, published in 1977; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981), which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) and the Duff Cooper Prize; and Rebecca West: A Life (1987). Both Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (1983) and Trollope (1992) won the Whitbread Biography Award. Her latest biography is Leonard Woolf (M&S, 2006). Glendinning is also the author of three novels: The Grown-Ups (1989); Electricity (1995); and Flight (M&S, 2004), a novel of passion and betrayal set in the world of international business."

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