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Q&A with Hermione Lee

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070401
Author:Kate Bolick is senior editor of Domino magazine; teaches writing at New York University. Her interviews appear regularly in Ideas. E-mail kbolick@; Kate Bolick

A THIRD OF the way through her absorbing new biography of Edith Wharton, Hermione Lee pauses to consider her subject's erotic appeal to Morton Fullerton, the notorious rogue she'd taken, in midlife, as her lover. "Exposing the concealed, thwarted, passionate self hidden under the gloves and furs could have been very intriguing to a certain kind of curious, adventurous sensualist," she writes. And, perhaps, to a certain kind of biographer?

"Well, that's it!" Lee laughed when I asked her as much over the phone last week. "Edith does this extraordinary mixture of dazzling ironical objective ...

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