Barbara Lounsberry is professor emerita of English at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. She is the author of Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read and The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction, and coeditor of Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality.

“Lounsberry is the only scholar to treat Woolf’s diaries for themselves—as works of art, as expressions of her private self, and as testing grounds for her experiments in novel-writing.”—Panthea Reid, author of Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles""Offers a fascinating alternative form of biography. Lounsberry is particularly skillful in combining close attention to and interpretation of the details of Woolf’s diary with a fluent sense of her life being lived across the years.”—Mark Hussey, author of Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception"In the passionate diary-reader we find here, Barbara Lounsberry has brought to life one more Virginia Woolf" - Times Literary Supplement