Elizabeth Hardwick

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Writer Hardwick Dead at 91
Writer
Hardwick
Dead at 91

Writer Hardwick Dead at 91

Critic, essayist, novelist co-founded New York Review of Books

(Newser) - Elizabeth Hardwick, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, died Sunday at 91, the Times reports. The Kentucky-born Hardwick moved north in 1939—“my aim was to be a New York Jewish intellectual,” she said later—and became a critical giant. "I have always written essays...

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