Elizabeth Hardwick is an accomplished essayist, short-story writer, and novelist. She first was published in 1945 with her novel The Ghostly Lover. Since then she has written two more novels and nume...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Fitzsimmons
The Simple Truth, Elizabeth Hardwick's second novel, follows the trial of the boy, Rudy Peck, in order to describe and to judge the efforts of those trying ...
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Critical Essay by Rosemary Dinnage
[Seduction & Betrayal: Women & Literature] is so original, so sly and strange, but the pleasure is embedded in the style, in the way [Miss Hardwick] flicks t...
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Critical Essay by Jean Stubbs
[Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature] is a titillating title, and the contents bear it out—though not as some might think.
Miss Hardwick is no hand-wringe...
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Critical Essay by Joan Didion
"I have always, all of my life, been looking for help from a man," we are told near the beginning of Elizabeth Hardwick's subtle and beautiful new bo...
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Critical Essay by Laurie Stone
Sleepless Nights [is] a very beautiful and concise probe of the past told by a woman called Elizabeth.
I have almost nothing negative to say about this book: There are a...
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Elizabeth (Bruce) Hardwick
