Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was a cofounder and advisory editor of the New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine.
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A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of 'the whole of Melville's wo... SEE MORE