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Article: Sixty years after her death, Virginia Woolf looms larger than ever
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- December 27, 2002
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The obsession can begin at any time.
In high school, for example.
"I first read Virginia Woolf when I was 15," says author Michael Cunningham,
whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Hours," features both Woolf'
s work and the author herself.
"This older girl, who I had a crush on, threw me a copy of `Mrs. Dalloway'
and said, `Why don't you read this and try to be less stupid.' I
had never seen anything like her writing. I remember thinking, 'She'
s doing with language what Jimi Hendrix does with guitar.'"
Or in the middle of a successful career.
"I hadn't read her as a kid. ... She had sort of a presence, but I ...