Woolf is the author of more than fifteen books, and innumerable essays and stories. She also kept a voluminous diary, an astonishing achievement for a writer crippled throughout her life by bouts of mental illness. Today she is honored not only as an innovative novelist and literary critic, indeed, one of the supreme prose writers of the twentieth century, but also as the author of the most brilliantly argued exposition of the female standpoint in modern times, A room of one's own.--From publisher description.