Hermione Lee is a highly respected British author, known for her work in nonfiction and biography. She was born and raised in London and received her education at Oxford. Lee's academic career began in the United States, where she worked as a lecturer at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and at Liverpool University. She later taught at the University of York, where she held various positions including Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of English Literature. Lee's distinguished career has also included positions at the University of Oxford, where she served as the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and Fellow of New College, and as President of Wolfson College.
In addition to her work as an author and educator, Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and St Cross Colleges, Oxford. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Liverpool and York Universities and was made a Commander of the British Empire for Services to Literature in 2003.
In contrast, Hermione Lee is an eighteen-year-old author and cover designer who was born and raised in Taiwan. She is an award-winning and #1 Amazon bestselling author, with her first book, "In the Name of the Otherworld," being released by World Castle Publishing when she was sixteen. She has since written twenty-two novels, with her works earning numerous awards and accolades. These include the gold medal in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the bronze medal in the FAPA President’s Book Awards, and the Literary Titan Gold Book Award.
Lee is a prolific writer, known for her ability to span multiple genres including fantasy, paranormal, horror, thriller, young adult, middle-grade, mystery, literary, and romance. She is a proud non-conformist and considers herself an eclectic eccentric and an eccentric eclectic. Lee writes anytime and anywhere, with her words serving as portals to whimsical worlds of magic. She aspires to one day win the Nobel Prize for Literature and become a wealthy recluse in her old age.
The Destiny Duology Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Defined by Destiny
2024
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
When Serendipity Strikes
2024
2
Dancing in the Moonlight
2024
Non-Fiction Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Novels of Virginia Woolf
1977
2
Elizabeth Bowen
1981
3
Philip Roth
1982
4
Willa Cather
1989
5
Virginia Woolf
1996
6
Body Parts
2005
7
Virginia Woolf's Nose
2005
8
Edith Wharton
2007
9
Penelope Fitzgerald
2013
10
Tom Stoppard: A Life
2020
Very Short Introductions Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Science and Religion (By: Thomas Dixon, Adam Shapiro)
1903
2
Marx (By: Peter Singer)
1980
3
Aristotle ( By: Jonathan Barnes)
1982
4
Darwin (By: Jonathan Howard)
1982
5
Hegel (By: Peter Singer, Luís Filipe Teixeira)
1983
6
Clausewitz (By: Michael Eliot Howard)
1983
7
Barthes (By: Jonathan Culler)
1983
8
Locke (By: John Dunn)
1984
9
Augustine (By: Henry Chadwick)
1986
10
Shakespeare (By: Germaine Greer)
1986
11
What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (By: Thomas Nagel)
1987
12
Kierkegaard (By: Patrick L. Gardiner)
1988
13
Wittgenstein (By: A.C. Grayling)
1988
14
The Laws of Thermodynamics (By: Peter Atkins)
1990
15
Privacy (By: Raymond Wacks)
1993
16
Schopenhauer (By: Christopher Janaway)
1994
17
Judaism (By: Norman Solomon)
1996
18
Archaeology (By: Paul G. Bahn)
1997
19
Psychology (By: Gillian Butler)
1998
20
Sociology (By: Steve Bruce)
1999
21
Theology (By: David F. Ford)
1999
22
The Tudors (By: John Guy)
2000
23
Logic (By: Graham Priest)
2000
24
History (By: John H. Arnold)
2000
25
The Bible (By: John Riches)
2000
26
Music: A Very Short Introduction (By: Nicholas Cook)
2000
27
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (By: Michael A. Cook)
2000
28
Planets (By: David A. Rothery)
2000
29
Nineteenth-Century Britain (By: Christopher Harvie, Colin Matthew)
2000
30
Eighteenth-Century Britain (By: Paul Langford)
2000
31
Capitalism (By: James Fulcher)
2001
32
Continental Philosophy (By: Simon Critchley)
2001
33
Postcolonialism (By: Robert J.C. Young)
2001
34
The European Union: A Very Short Introduction (By: John Pinder)
2001
35
Galileo (By: Stillman Drake, Keith Thomas)
2001
36
Emotion (By: Dylan Evans)
2001
37
Russian Literature (By: Catriona Kelly)
2001
38
Drugs (By: Leslie L. Iversen)
2001
39
The French Revolution (By: William Doyle)
2001
40
Mathematics (By: Timothy Gowers)
2002
41
Quantum Theory (By: John C. Polkinghorne)
2002
42
Fascism (By: Kevin Passmore)
2002
43
Empire (By: Stephen Howe)
2002
44
The First World War (By: Michael Eliot Howard)
2002
45
Philosophy of Science (By: Samir Okasha)
2002
46
Animal Rights (By: David DeGrazia)
2002
47
The Penguin History of Economics (By: Roger E. Backhouse)
2002
48
Russell (By: A.C. Grayling)
2002
49
The Russian Revolution (By: S.A. Smith)
2002
50
Choice Theory (By: Michael Allingham)
2002
51
Consciousness (By: Susan Blackmore)
2003
52
Political Philosophy (By: David Miller)
2003
53
Northern Ireland (By: Marc Mulholland)
2003
54
Globalization (By: Manfred B. Steger)
2003
55
The Celts (By: Barry Cunliffe)
2003
56
Ideology (By: Michael Freeden)
2003
57
Presocratic Philosophy (By: Catherine Osborne)
2003
58
The Brain (By: Michael O'Shea)
2003
59
Molecules (By: Philip Ball)
2003
60
The Elements (By: Philip Ball)
2004
61
Kafka (By: Ritchie Robertson)
2004
62
The Crusades (By: Christopher Tyerman)
2004
63
Particle Physics (By: Frank Close)
2004
64
Egyptian Myth (By: Geraldine Pinch)
2004
65
Ancient Egypt (By: Ian Shaw)
2004
66
Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction (By: Harry Sidebottom)
2004
67
Global Warming (By: Mark Maslin)
2004
68
Philosophy (By: Edward Craig)
2004
69
Foucault (By: Gary Gutting)
2005
70
Fossils (By: Keith S. Thomson)
2005
71
The Spanish Civil War (By: Helen Graham)
2005
72
Habermas (By: James Gordon Finlayson)
2005
73
Socialism (By: Michael Newman)
2005
74
Kabbalah (By: Joseph Dan)
2005
75
Existentialism (By: Thomas R. Flynn)
2006
76
The Renaissance (By: Jerry Brotton)
2006
77
Feminism (By: Margaret Walters)
2006
78
The Roman Empire (By: Christopher Kelly)
2006
79
Chaos (By: Leonard A. Smith)
2007
80
Human Rights (By: Andrew Clapham)
2007
81
Antisemitism (By: Steven Beller)
2007
82
Tocqueville (By: Harvey Mansfield Jr.)
2007
83
Documentary Film (By: Patricia Aufderheide)
2007
84
The Cold War (By: Robert J. McMahon)
2007
85
International Migration (By: Khalid Koser)
2007
86
Newton (By: Rob Iliffe)
2007
87
Economics (By: Partha Dasgupta)
2007
88
The Great Depression and the New Deal (By: Eric Rauchway)
2007
89
Classical Mythology (By: Helen Morales)
2007
90
Bestsellers (By: John Sutherland)
2007
91
Game Theory (By: David Hume)
2007
92
Geopolitics (By: Klaus Dodds)
2007
93
The History of Life (By: Michael J. Benton)
2008
94
Modern China (By: Rana Mitter)
2008
95
The United Nations (By: Jussi M. Hanhimäki)
2008
96
Nuclear Weapons (By: Joseph M. Siracusa)
2008
97
Galaxies (By: John Gribbin)
2008
98
German Literature (By: Nicholas Boyle)
2008
99
The Old Testament (By: Michael D. Coogan)
2008
100
The New Testament as Literature (By: Kyle Keefer)
2008
101
Sexuality (By: Véronique Mottier)
2008
102
Religion in America (By: Timothy Beal)
2008
103
Nelson Mandela (By: Elleke Boehmer)
2008
104
Statistics (By: David J. Hand)
2008
105
Puritanism (By: Francis J. Bremer)
2008
106
Scotland (By: Rab Houston)
2008
107
The Reagan Revolution (By: Gil Troy)
2009
108
Communism (By: Leslie Holmes)
2009
109
Modern Japan (By: Christopher Goto-Jones)
2009
110
Deserts (By: Nick Middleton)
2009
111
Nothing (By: Frank Close)
2009
112
Biography
2009
113
The Soviet Union (By: Stephen Lovell)
2009
114
The Book of Mormon (By: Terryl L. Givens)
2009
115
The Norman Conquest (By: George Garnett)
2009
116
Biblical Archaeology (By: Eric H. Cline)
2009
117
Fashion (By: Rebecca Arnold)
2009
118
Progressivism (By: Walter Nugent)
2009
119
Information (By: Luciano Floridi)
2010
120
Neoliberalism (By: Manfred B. Steger)
2010
121
Numbers (By: Peter M. Higgins)
2010
122
Film Music (By: Kathryn Kalinak)
2010
123
The New Testament (By: Luke Timothy Johnson)
2010
124
Humanism (By: Stephen Law)
2010
125
Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction (By: Malcolm Gaskill)
2010
126
French Literature (By: John D. Lyons)
2010
127
Druids (By: Barry Cunliffe)
2010
128
The U.S. Congress (By: Donald A. Ritchie)
2010
129
The Hebrew Bible as Literature (By: Tod Linafelt)
2010
130
Modernism (By: Christopher Butler)
2010
131
North American Indians (By: Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green)
2010
132
Landscapes and Geomorphology (By: Andrew S. Goudie, Heather Viles)
2010
133
Keynes (By: Robert Skidelsky)
2010
134
Agnosticism (By: Robin Le Poidevin)
2010
135
Aristocracy ( By: William Doyle)
2010
136
Folk Music (By: Mark Slobin)
2010
137
Environmental Economics (By: Stephen Smith)
2011
138
Global Economic History (By: Robert C. Allen)
2011
139
Critical Theory (By: Theodor W. Adorno)
2011
140
Early Music (By: Thomas Forrest Kelly)
2011
141
American Immigration (By: David A. Gerber)
2011
142
Paganism (By: Owen Davies)
2011
143
Nuclear Power (By: Maxwell Irvine)
2011
144
Science Fiction (By: David Seed)
2011
145
Herodotus (By: Jennifer T. Roberts)
2011
146
Dictionaries (By: Lynda Mugglestone)
2011
147
Modern France (By: Vanessa R. Schwartz)
2011
148
Colonial Latin American Literature (By: Rolena Adorno)
2011
149
The Aztecs (By: Davíd Carrasco)
2011
150
The Cultural Revolution (By: Richard Curt Kraus)
2011
151
Modern Latin American Literature (By: Roberto González Echevarría)
2011
152
Reality (By: Jan Westerhoff)
2011
153
The Conquistadors (By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Matthew Restall)
2011
154
The U.S. Supreme Court (By: Linda Greenhouse)
2012
155
Magic (By: Owen Davies)
2012
156
Film (By: Michael Wood)
2012
157
The History of Mathematics (By: Jacqueline A. Stedall)