Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) was an English writer. She wrote novels, novellas and plays, and composed her first ballad at the age of eleven. After an extended stay in Persia, she returned to England with her husband and their two children. She received the Hawthornden Prize in 1926 and 1933. She died at Sissinghurst Castle.