Katherine Mansfield
A Secret Life
(Author) Claire TomalinPursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring admiration, jealousy, rage and devotion. Claire Tomalin's biography brings her nearer than we have ever been to this haunted and haunting writer.
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin is a renowned British biographer known for her meticulous research and compelling storytelling. Her most famous work, "The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft," brought new insight into the life of the feminist pioneer. Tomalin's contributions to literature lie in her ability to breathe life into historical figures.