Hermione Lee is a British biographer, literary critic, and academic born in Winchester, Hampshire in 1948. She has held several prestigious positions at the University of Oxford, including serving as the Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and as a professorial fellow of New College. She also served as president of Wolfson College, Oxford. Lee is recognized as a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature, reflecting her significant contributions to literary scholarship and criticism.