Margaret Drabble
English biographer, novelist and short story writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939)[1] is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
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Born | (1939-06-05) 5 June 1939 (age 84) Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
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Education | Newnham College, University of Cambridge |
Years active | 1963– |
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Notable awards | John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 1966 James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1967 The Yorkshire Post Book Award (Finest Fiction) 1972 American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award 1973 Golden PEN Award 2011 |
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Relatives | A. S. Byatt (sister) |
Drabble's books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She was honoured by the University of Cambridge in 2006, having earlier received awards from numerous redbrick (e.g. Sheffield, Hull, Manchester,) and plateglass universities (such as Bradford, Keele, East Anglia and York). She received the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award in 1973.
Drabble also wrote biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson and edited two editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature and a book on Thomas Hardy.