This biography of Virginia Woolf is unusual.It is written by someone who knew her well when he was a child.Although short,it gives the key moments,the key traits and the key ideas that have made her life so continuously fascinating to new generations.At the same time it provides a firm record of her literary avhievement.Nigel Nicolson is son of Vita Sackville-West,who was Virginia Woolf`s most intimate friend,and for a short time her lover.