Elizabeth Hardwick
What's New at The New York Review of Books?
Last week, The New York Review of Books, the biweekly chronicle of American intellectual life that will turn 45 next year, lost one of its founding editors when Elizabeth Hardwick passed away at the age of 91. It was a deeply sad moment for The Review, which had lost another beloved editor, Barbara Epstein, just a year and a half ago. read more »
Last of a Generation: Elizabeth Hardwick, Co-Founder of New York Review of Books, Dies at 91
Elizabeth Hardwick, the author and critic who fulfilled her dream of becoming a "New York intellectual," died in her sleep Sunday night at Roosevelt Hospital, according to Catherine Tice, associate publisher of the New York Review of Books, which Hardwick helped found in 1963. She had been hospitalized with a minor infection. She was 91 years old.
Another Brief and Daring Bio: Teasing, Tangled Melville Yarn
Herman Melville , by Elizabeth Hardwick. read more »














