AKA Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick

Born: 27-Jul-1916
Birthplace: Lexington, KY
Died: 2-Dec-2007
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic, Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Seduction and Betrayal

Father: Eugene Allen Hardwick
Mother: Mary Ramsey
Sister: Francis Ledridde
Husband: Robert Lowell (poet, m. Jul-1949, div. 1972, one daughter)
Daughter: Harriett Winslow Lowell

    University: Henry Clay High School, Lexington, KY
    University: BA English Literature, University of Kentucky (1938)
    University: MA English Literature, University of Kentucky (1939)
    University: Columbia University
    Professor: Barnard College

    EMILY's List
    International PEN
    John Kerry for President
    Guggenheim Fellowship 1947

Author of books:
The Ghostly Lover (1945, novel)
The Simple Truth (1955, novel)
A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society (1962, essays)
Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature (1974, essays)
Sleepless Nights (1979, novel)
Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays (1983, essays)
History (1990)
Sight Readings: American Fictions (1998)
Herman Melville (2000, criticism)

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