A Room of Ones Own

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (Author) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group an informal collective of British writers artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces including Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando and The Waves.Merve Emre (Introducer) EDITOR BIOGRAPHYMERVE EMRE is a professor at Wesleyan University where she is also the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker Harper's Magazine Bookforum The New York Times Magazine The Atlantic The New Republic The Baffler n+1 and the Los Angeles Review of Books.