Hardwick, Elizabeth (1916–)

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Hardwick, Elizabeth (1916–)

American novelist and essayist. Born July 27, 1916, in Lexington, Kentucky; dau. of Eugene and Mary Ramsey Hardwick; University of Kentucky, MA, 1939; m. Robert Lowell (poet), July 28, 1949 (div. 1972); children: Harriett Winslow Lowell.

A professor at Columbia School of the Arts, was also a literary critic for Partisan Review; co-founded the New York Review of Books (1963); novels include The Ghostly Lover (1945), The Simple Truth (1955), and Sleepless Nights (1979); also wrote A View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Society (1962), Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature (1974), which was nominated for the National Book Award, and Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays (1983); was the editor for 18 volumes of Rediscoveed Fiction by American Women (1977).

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