Elaine Feinstein

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Elaine Feinstein (born 24 October 1930, Bootle, Lancashire) is a poet, novelist, playwright, biographer, short-story writer and translator.

1 Education
2 Career
3 Publications
4 Prizes and awards
5 References
6 External link

[edit] Education

Newnham College, Cambridge
She has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester.

[edit] Career

Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as an editor for Cambridge University Press (1960-62), as Lecturer in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College (1963-6), as Assistant Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Essex (1967-70), and as a journalist.

She contributes to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, and was Writer in Residence for the British Council in Singapore and Tromsoe, Norway.

Of Russian-Jewish ancestry, she has been influenced by Russian writers, especially Marina Tsvetayeva and Anna Akhmatova.

She is the author of a number of plays for television and radio and several biographies, including singer Bessie Smith, writer D. H. Lawrence, Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and Anna Akhmatova.

[edit] Publications

In a Green Eye: Goliard Press, 1966
Selected Poems of John Clare (editor): University Tutorial Press, 1968
The Circle: Hutchinson, 1970
Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva (editor): Oxford University Press, 1971
The Magic Apple Tree: Hutchinson, 1971
At the Edge: Sceptre Press, 1972
Matters of Chance (short stories): Covent Garden Press, 1972
The Amberstone Exit: Hutchinson, 1972
The Celebrants and Other Poems: Hutchinson, 1973
The Glass Alembic: Hutchinson, 1973
The Children of the Rose: Hutchinson, 1975
The Ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner: Hutchinson, 1976
Some Unease and Angels: Hutchinson, 1977
The Shadow Master: Hutchinson, 1978
New Stories Four (co-editor with Fay Weldon): Arts Council, 1979
Three Russian Poets: Margarita Aliger, Yunna Moritz & Bella Akhmadulina (translator) Carcanet, 1979
The Silent Areas: Hutchinson, 1980
The Feast of Eurydice Next Editions/Faber and Faber, 1981
The Survivors: Hutchinson, 1982
The Border: Hutchinson, 1984
Bessie Smith Viking, 1985
Badlands: Hutchinson, 1986
A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva: Hutchinson, 1987
First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina (translator with Antonina W. Bouis): Marion Boyars, 1988
Mother's Girl: Hutchinson, 1988
PEN New Poetry II (editor): Quartet, 1988
All You Need: Hutchinson, 1989
City Music: Hutchinson, 1990
Black Earth/Marina Tsvetayeva: Versions by Elaine Feinstein: Delos Press, 1992
Loving Brecht: Hutchinson, 1992
Lawrence's Women: The Intimate Life of D. H. Lawrence: HarperCollins, 1993
Dreamers: Macmillan, 1994
Selected Poems: Carcanet, 1994
Lady Chatterley's Confession: Hutchinson, 1995
Daylight: Carcanet, 1997
Pushkin: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998
After Pushkin (editor and introduction): Carcanet, 1999
Gold: Carcanet, 2000
Dark Inheritance: Women's Press, 2001
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001
Collected Poems and Translations: Carcanet, 2003
Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005