The English author Virginia Woolf is one of the 20th century’s literary giants, renowned for the pioneering stream-of-consciousness style she immortalized in novels like To the Lighthouse and Mrs.

As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a professor ...

Undaunted by the many biographers who preceded her, Gillian Gill strides into Bloomsbury like Virginia Woolf on a long tramp around the English countryside. With the bold ambition of telling the famed ...

“Someone once asked me, ‘Why don’t you write your biography?’ I replied, ‘Because fucking Virginia Woolf wrote my biography in 1928.’” So muses director Paul B. Preciado at the start of his ...

BURLINGTON, Mass. — Virginia Woolf has been dead for nearly 80 years, but she continues to be a looming presence in modern culture. An opera based on her gender-bending novel, “Orlando,” recently ...

Virginia Woolf’s fantastical 1928 feminist novel “Orlando: A Biography,” inspired by her lover Vita Sackville-West, charts 300 years of an invented life that starts as a boy’s and changes into a woman ...

Virginia Woolf‘s “Orlando: A Biography” is a centuries-spanning tale of a nobleman who, after a slumber that runs through several nights, metamorphoses into a woman. Inspired by and dedicated to Woolf ...

"Someone once asked me: why don't you write your biography," filmmaker Paul B. Preciado says at the start of the trailer for his documentary Orlando, My Political Biography. "Because fucking Virginia ...

Although Leonard Woolf (1880– 1969) was a seminal figure in the Bloomsbury set, he is known today primarily as the devoted caregiver of his wife, Virginia. That his life and career encompassed ...