Vita Sackville-West
This article needs attention from an expert on the subject. Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. Consider associating this request with a WikiProject. (September 2011) Vita Sackville-West The Honorable Lady Nicolson Vita Sackville-West by Philip de László, 1910 Born (1892-03-09)9 March 1892 Knole House, Kent, England Died 2 June 1962(1962-06-02) (aged 70) Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England Occupation Novelist, poet, gardener Nationality UK Period 1917–1960 Spouse Harold Nicolson (m. 1913–62); 2 sons The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate.