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    Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a ...

  2. Rebecca West, British journalist, novelist, and critic, who was perhaps best known for her reports on the Nurnberg trials of Nazi war criminals, which were collected in the book A Train of Powder. Among her other notable books are the novel The Return of the Soldier and the nonfiction work Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

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  3. Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. She was brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she attended George Watson's Ladies College.

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    • March 15, 1983
    • December 21, 1892
  4. May 17, 2014 · Fast-paced and well-researched, The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West is a fine biography of a writer whose life and career was full of fascinating contradictions and intersections.

  5. Rebecca West has 115 books on Goodreads with 74671 ratings. Rebecca West’s most popular book is The Return of the Soldier.

  6. Mar 1, 2024 · Rebecca West’s Sprawling, Splendid History of Yugoslavia. Published in 1941, ‘Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia’ combines travelogue, philosophy and rapt storytelling...

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  8. Jul 6, 2013 · Rebecca West (1892-1983) was an Anglo-Irish writer of supreme talent, versatility and international achievement, but handicapped by a tragic flaw. Her private affairs were a mess.