Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life in Bloomington, MN

"[T]he most informative, most nearly definitive, most judicious word on this major, modern writer."—Scott Elledge
"[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations."—Carolyn Heilbrun,
The New York Times
Book Review This "original, intuitive, and even exciting" (
The New Yorker
) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art—her childhood, her relationships with her father and sister, her marriage, and her descents into madness.