Professor Hermione Lee Made a Dame in Queen's Honours List

Professor Hermione Lee has been appointed DBE for services to literary scholarship. Dame Hermione is a renowned biographer, reviewer and broadcaster. She has written biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, and critical books on Elizabeth Bowen, Woolf, and Philip Roth. She is currently writing a biography of the twentieth-century British novelist Penelope Fitzgerald.