Selina Hastings

Selina Hastings

Selina Hastings is a writer and journalist. She is the author of four literary biographies, of Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Somerset Maugham and Rosamond Lehmann. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she reviews regularly and has been a judge of the Booker Prize. In 2011 she won the Biographers’ Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize

Books by Selina Hastings

“The great luck of writing about novelists is that writing is how they communicate. I couldn’t possibly write about a painter or a musician, but a writer is constantly communicating themselves not only through their work but through their correspondence.”

The best books on Evelyn Waugh and the Bright Young Things recommended by Selina Hastings

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