Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen was born Elizabeth Dorothea Cole in Dublin in 1899, taking her literary name from the family home Bowen’s Court, in County Cork.
Her novels include Encounters; The Hotel; The Last September; Friends and Relations; To the North; The House in Paris; The Death of the Heart; The Heat of the Day; A World of Love; The Little Girls; The Good Tiger; and Eva Trout which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. Elizabeth was also a writer of non-fiction and short story collections. Elizabeth Bowen died in London in 1973 and is buried in Cork.
