Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield, known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman.
- Occupation
- journalist, writer, literary critic, essayist
- Position held
- Booker Prize judge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- December 21, 1892
- Died
- March 15, 1983