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“They Did Glimpse Something Magical in Those Years”: A Conversation with Joanna Hodgkin.

Joanna Hodgkin is the daughter of Nancy Durrell Hodgkin. In early 2012, Virago Press will publish Amateurs in Eden, Joanna Hodgkin’s biography of her mother.  In June 2012, Ms. Hodgkin will be a featured speaker at Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary. … Continue reading

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“Durrell Can Evoke Place Better Than Any Writer I Know”: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on Lawrence Durrell (4 January 2011).

Greg Lawrence’s new book, Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Macmillan 2011), details Jackie Onassis’s career working for Viking and Doubleday. Onassis’s esteem for Lawrence Durrell’s travel writing will especially interest readers here at Durrell 2012. In … Continue reading

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