1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
Victoria Glendinning
Her looks attracted Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. Among her friends were Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew. The 1930s she …