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Elizabeth Hardwick was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.
* She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1916.
* She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939.
* She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947.
* She was the author of three novels: The Ghostly Lover (1945), The Simple Truth (1955), and Sleepless Nights (1979).
* She also published four books of criticism: A View of My Own (1962), Seduction and Betrayal (1974), Bartleby in Manhattan (1983), and Sight-Readings (1998).
* She was married to the poet Robert Lowell from 1949 to 1972.
* She died in New York City in 2007.
* She is considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.