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Nationality. British. Education. St Hugh's College, Oxford ( MA) Parents. Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon. Margaret Lane. Hastings ancestral coat of arms. Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March 1945) is a British journalist, author and biographer.
Oct 29, 2020 · The latest issue of TLS has a preview from the new biography by Selina Hastings. In this, she writes of the life and works of novelist Sybille Bedford. Hastings explains in the excerpt that Bedford was raised in Germany in a part-Jewish family during the early Nazi years. She was befriended by the Aldous Huxleys whom she met in Spain and they ...
Jul 22, 2010 · By Selina Hastings. Illustrated. 626 pp. Random House. $35. David Leavitt is the Waldo W. Neikirk term professor at the University of Florida for 2010-11.
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Feb 4, 2021 · SYBILLE BEDFORD A Life By Selina Hastings. Sybille Bedford is not a household name, but among her coterie of admirers in Europe and America she is held in high esteem. Her reputation rests upon a ...
Contemporary Authors. Hastings, Selina 1945- (Lady Selina Shirley Hastings, Selina Shirley Hastings)PERSONAL:Born March 5, 1945; daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon and Margaret Lane. Education: St. Hugh's College, Oxford, M.A.ADDRESSES:Office—Coleridge & White, 20 Powis Mews, London W11, England.
Jul 22, 2010 · By Selina Hastings. July 22, 2010. Chapter 1: A Blackstable Boyhood. For much of his long life — he lived to be over ninety — Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was the most famous writer in the ...
Selina Hastings is a writer by profession, and has published several highly acclaimed biographies: Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh (winner of the Marsh Biography Prize), Rosamond Lehmann and The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham. She is the recipient of the Spear’s Award For Outstanding Achievement for a body of work and the Biographers’ Club Lifetime Services to Biography Award.
