Another Brief and Daring Bio: Teasing, Tangled Melville Yarn
Herman Melville , by Elizabeth Hardwick. Lipper/Viking, 161 pages, $19.95. The English excel at writing brief lives, a pocket-size genre long on style, short on facts. Invented by the second-century...
View ArticleLast of a Generation: Elizabeth Hardwick, Co-Founder of New York Review of...
Elizabeth Hardwick, the author and critic who fulfilled her dream of becoming a "New York intellectual," died in her sleep Sunday night at Roosevelt Hospital, according to Catherine Tice, associate...
View ArticleWhat’s New at The New York Review of Books?
Last week, The New York Review of Books, the biweekly chronicle of American intellectual life that will turn 45 next year, lost one of its founding editors when Elizabeth Hardwick passed away at the...
View Article‘Okie’ Buys Old Lowell-Hardwick Duplex for $3.3 M., Will Remove Some Bookshelves
According to the immutable laws of Manhattan real estate, apartments that belong to artful New Yorkers all end up in the hands of tanned businesspeople. Two years ago, for example, a department store...
View ArticleGerry Howard Signs Mary McCarthy-Biographer Frances Kiernan For Book on...
Frances Kiernan, biographer of Brooke Astor and Mary McCarthy, is writing her next book about Elizabeth Hardwick, Lady Caroline Blackwood, and their respective marriages to the poet Robert Lowell....
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