WELLFLEET -- It has never been easy being Diana Trilling. These days it's even harder. Trilling -- one of the most prominent of America's cultural critics at mid-century -- is an old woman now. Her protruding brown eyes are so clouded that she...

The American writer Diana Trilling was one of the last surviving members of the literary circle that came to be known as the New York intellectuals. This was the group of literary critics and political writers that emerged from the ideological battles of...

Elizabeth Hardwick, a Kentucky-born author and critic whose incisive prose and steady spirit helped her well fulfill her dream of becoming a "New York Intellectual," has died at age 91.Hardwick, who lived for decades on Manhattan's Upper West Side, died in her sleep Sunday night...

In the following interview, Trilling and Harris discuss Trilling's life and career.

In the following essay, Balbert argues against Trilling's interpretation of D. H. Lawrence's Mr Noon.

In the following review, Krupnick finds The Beginning of the Journey self-serving and harshly critical of Lionel Trilling yet maintains that it is Diana Trilling's best book.