V. Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West (1892 – 1962) was an English poet, novelist, and journalist. She was the author of thirteen novels, several plays and short-story collections, and more than a dozen books of poetry. Some of her most famous works are The Edwardians (Doubleday, Doran & co., 1930) and All Passion Spent (Hogarth, 1931). Sackville-West was awarded the Hawthornden Prize twice: in 1926 for The Land (W. Heinemann) and in 1933 for her Collected Poems (Hogarth). She received the Heinemann Prize in 1947 for The Garden (Michael Joseph, 1946), and by 1948, she was made a royal Companion of Honour for her services to literature.