Lyndall Gordon is a South African writer and academic, known for her literary biographies. Born in Cape Town, she was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, then a doctoral student at Columbia University. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Gordon is the author of Eliot's Early Years (1977), which won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize, and Eliot's New Life (1988), which were later published together as T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life (1999). She also wrote Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (1984), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994), winner of the Cheltenham prize for literature, Shared Lives (2005), and Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (2005).[1]
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