No doubt each of them was commissioned by editors ignorant of the existence of the other projects — editors aware that
no significant full biography of Eliot had appeared since Gordon Haight's authoritative volume of 1968, and that her ever — increasing stature in the pantheon of English writers certainly merited renewed biographical activity.
Yet in this riveting
biography, the first
full - length account of her colorful life, Krasner emerges as a
significant artist who deserves her place in the twentieth century's cultural lexicon.