PositiveBook PostHermione Lee, who had captured the lives of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather in revelatory detail, has chosen playwright Tom Stoppard as her next subject. Or rather he chose her ... Stoppard, who had derided biographies, asked the great Professor Lee of Oxford to write his life. She accepted. Stoppard is one of those rare playwrights like Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, Pinter whose very name becomes an adjective summoning up the world they’ve created on stage. Shakespearean! ... What tack would Lee take in this biography of her first living subject and first male? ... Lee tells Virginia Woolf’s life in a kaleidoscopic fashion. She tells Stoppard’s in a straightforward chronology ...
