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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.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

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