Claims: Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due

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1. title: Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due (alleges; supported) Source
2. url: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/01/anita-brookner-by-hermione-lee-review-an-enigmatic-literary-great-given-her-due (alleges; supported) Source
3. summary: This exhaustive biography of the Booker winner brings her properly out of the shadows for the first time ‘Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.” The first fictional sentence Anita Brookner ever published, aged 53, in A Start in Life, certainly set a tone. If people have heard of Brookner today, Hermione Lee says, they imagine a lonely, cardiganed woman yearning for an absent lover. “This,” says Lee (an emeritus English professor at the University of Oxford),… (alleges; supported) Source
4. published: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:00:48 GMT (alleges; supported) Source