# Hermione Lee, Anita Brookner: Art and Life

Hermione Lee, Anita Brookner: Art and Life at The New York Society Library, Thursday 19 November 2026, 18:00.

- Price: from $10
- Venue: The New York Society Library, East 79th Street 53, 10075
- With: Hermione Lee
- Go to page: https://www.nysoclib.org/events/hermione-lee-anita-brookner-art-and-life

![Hermione Lee, Anita Brookner: Art and Life](https://noky.io/images/eb9a68e4025aadad776999ac9b1d7abce59021f0f3509fd76d8c3a42237cc7cd-1200.webp)

A lecture and conversation open to the public, held in the Members' Room and online, about Hermione Lee's biography of the novelist Anita Brookner. Lee, a biographer and emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford, portrays Brookner as a formidable, witty, and private writer who was also a celebrated art historian and the author of twenty-five novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac. The book weaves together Brookner's life and work, showing her as the inventor of her lonely heroines rather than their mirror image.

## Dates

- Thursday 19 November 18:00 — The New York Society Library

Written by a model, sources: [nysoclib.org](https://www.nysoclib.org/events/hermione-lee-anita-brookner-art-and-life)

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