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Hermione Lee was president of Wolfson College from 2008 to 2017 and is professor emerita of English literature at Oxford University. Her work includes biographies of Tom Stoppard, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton, as well as Penelope Fitzgerald, which won the James Tait Black Prize and was named one of the New York Times's top 10 Best Books of 2014. She has also written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Roth, and Willa Cather. She was awarded the Biographers' Club Prize for Exceptional Contribution to Biography in 2018. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003 she was made a CBE, and in 2013 she was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship. |