Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography

(Princeton University Press) “How does one read an author?” This question strikes at the heart of DiBattista’s critical biography of Virginia Woolf. This study explores the various complementary identities of what DiBattista calls “the figment of the author” — the Virginia Woolf who lives in the pages of her work and in the minds of her readers. Maria DiBattista is a professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton University.