Vita Sackville-West
British writer and gardener
Died when: 70 years 85 days (842 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist.She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her lifetime.
She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems.
She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.She wrote a column in The Observer from 1946 to 1961 and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson.