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.Interview with Elaine Feinstein  in The Times. 

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

Category:1930 births
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Category:English poets
Category:English novelists
Category:English playwrights
Category:British translators
Category:Writers from Lancashire