Vita & Virginia: The lives and love of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-WestA double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West, their friendship and love affair. A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the worlds most famous writers a leading light of literary modernism and feminism and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sackville West, and they remained friends until Virginias death