VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the
narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first
novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary
criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One's Own, and other
acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway,To the Lighthouse, and
Orlando.
ABOUT THE INTRODUCER- SUSAN CHOI is the author of five novels,
including Trust Exercise, which received the 2019 National Book
Award for fiction.She has also been recipient of the Asian-American
Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award, a Lamba
Literary award, the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award,
and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Guggenheim Foundation.She serves as a trustee of PEN America and
teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She
lives in Brooklyn.
“I reread this book every once in a while, and every time I do I
find it more capacious and startling. It’s so revolutionary and so
exquisitely wrought that it keeps evolving on its own somehow, as
if it’s alive.” —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
“A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her
prose and it will never be the same again.” —Greta Gerwig, director
of Lady Bird and Little Women
“To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in
the English language, a book which transcends time.” —Margaret
Drabble, author of The Witch of Exmoor
“[Woolf’s] people are astoundingly real…The tragic futility, the
absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of life–we experience all of this
in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsay’s wasted or not wasted
existence. We have seen, through her, the world.” —Conrad
Aiken, author of The Conversation
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