I keep coming back to Virginia Woolf, I think she must be the most important author in my personal canon. And I can’t imagine anyone knowing as much about Virginia Woolf as the great scholar Dame Hermione Lee.
see also:
Hermione Lee, The Art of Biography
sub rosa 
Hermione Lee’s biography of Virginia Woolf is still the most innovative and enthralling I’ve read. Thanks for the lecture.
Totally agree! It’s a fantastic rich, but still very respectful biography.