Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein (born as Elaine Coolin; 24 October 1930 - 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator. She was born in Bootle, Lancashire.
She wrote 14 novels, many radio plays, television dramas and five biographies, including A Captive Lion: the Life of Marina Tsvetaeva (1987) and Pushkin (1998). Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet (2001) was shortlisted for the biennial Marsh Biography Prize.
Feinstein died on 23 September 2019 at the age of 88.
Books
Bessie Smith: Lives of Modern Women Series Penguin/Viking
A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva Hutchinson, 1987
Lawrence' s Women HarperCollins, London, 1993; Lawrence and The Women New York, 1993
Pushkin Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Ecco, U. S, 1998
The Russian Jerusalem
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001
Anna of all the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005; Knopf, 2006
It Goes With The Territory: Memoirs of a Poet Alma Books, 2013
References
Other websites
Podcast interview with Elaine Feinstein at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival" Elaine Feinstein - Talking to the Dead" , 7 May 2007. BBC Woman' s Hour (audio 9 min) ]" Elaine Feinstein" , Tuesday 2 July 2002]" She Means It When She Rhymes: Marina Tsvetaeva: Selected Poems" . Review from Thumbscrew. No 17 - Winter 2000/1
1930 births
2019 deaths
English poets
English novelists
English playwrights
British translators
Writers from Lancashire