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Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick, a critic, novelist, and cofounder of The New York Review of Books, was born on July 27, 1916, in Lexington, Kentucky. Her hometown later served as the subject of her July 1969 Harper’s Magazine article, “Lexington, Kentucky.” “‘How can you be from here, and think like you do?’” she asks herself in the piece. “What can I answer except to say that I have been, according to my limits, always skeptical, and that I have, always, since my…

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