description: The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate. This is her biography.
language: English
title: Vita
titlecomplete: Vita
genres: LGBT, History, Biography, Womens, Historical, Biography Memoir, British Literature, Feminism, Bisexual, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 505
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Joint Biography
publisher: Random House Value Publishing