The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West
By Lorna Gibb
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Winner of the Granta Memoir Award
Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth-century literary scene. A passionate and fiercely intelligent suffragist and socialist, she published her first book, a biography of Henry James, when she was only twenty-four, and her first novel followed just two years later. She had a notorious affair with H. G. Wells, and their son, Anthony, was born out of wedlock at the beginning of the First World War.
She is perhaps best remembered for her classic account of pre-war Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, and for her coverage of the Nuremberg trials. When she died in 1983 at the age of ninety, William Shawn, then editor-in-chief of the New Yorker, said: “Rebecca West was one of the giants and will have a lasting place in English literature. No one in this century wrote more dazzling prose, or had more wit, or looked at the intricacies of human character and the ways of the world more intelligently.” Lorna Gibb’s vivid and insightful biography affords a dazzling vision into her life and work.
“West was a woman of ‘surprising contradictions,’ and this biography captures them all without losing sight of the very real person in whom they resided.” —The Washington Post
Lorna Gibb
Lorna Gibb was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire and used to work as a professional dancer. She lectures at Middlesex University and was the Visiting Research Fellow in History at Essex University. She has lived in many different countries but now lives in London with her husband and her two rescue cats from Qatar. Her fascinating biography of Dame Rebecca West entitled West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West was published in 2014.
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