Hermione Lee (1948- ) is the acclaimed Virginia Woolf scholar and the author of Virginia Woolf (Knopf, 1997). She is a biographer, critic, broadcaster, and Goldsmith’s Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, Oxford, England. Hermione Lee is the author of Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up (1989); Philip Roth (1982), Elizabeth Bowen: An Estimation (1981, revised 1999), and The Novels of Virginia Woolf (1977). Lee has also edited and compiled numerous editions and anthologies of writers such as Kipling, Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty. She is one of the co-editors of the Oxford Poets Anthologies. Currently she is working on a biography on Edith Wharton. In 2003, Hermione Lee presented the keynote address at the International Virginia Woolf Conference (Smith College, Northampton, MA) on Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill.