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Anthony West. Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and ...
Rebecca West (born December 21, 1892, London, England—died March 15, 1983, London) was a British journalist, novelist, and critic, who was perhaps best known for her reports on the Nürnberg trials of Nazi war criminals (1945–46). West was the daughter of an army officer and was educated in Edinburgh after her father’s death in 1902.
edit data. Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. She was brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she attended George Watson's Ladies College. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist ...
Rebecca West has 115 books on Goodreads with 74647 ratings. Rebecca West’s most popular book is The Return of the Soldier.
Oct 2, 2018 · Rebecca West (December 21, 1892 – March 15, 1983), British novelist, journalist, and essayist, was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield in County Kerry, Ireland. Her mother was a pianist; her father, a would-be journalist and ne’er-do-well, abandoned his family when she was eight years old, after which they moved to Edinburgh, Scotland.
May 17, 2014 · Fast-paced and well-researched, The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West is a fine biography of a writer whose life and career was full of fascinating contradictions and intersections. A new ...
Mar 1, 2024 · When Rebecca West died in 1983, the New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn paid tribute to her talents. Despite having worked with J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote and James Baldwin, ...
Jul 6, 2013 · Rebecca West (1892-1983) was an Anglo-Irish writer of supreme talent, versatility and international achievement, but handicapped by a tragic flaw. Her private affairs were a mess.
Rebecca West was a writer, journalist, and literary critic. West’s reporting on her travels through the Balkans, published in The Atlantic in 1941, was compiled in the book Black Lamb and Grey ...
Born in 1892, Rebecca West was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield and, in preparation for her role as a socialist feminist, took her adopted name from the spiky heroine in Henrik Ibsen’s play Rosmersholm. In 1947, Time magazine called West ‘indisputably the world’s number one woman writer’ and she was equally distinguished as a novelist ...
