Margaret Forster
English novelist and biographer (1938–2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.
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Born | (1938-05-25)25 May 1938 Carlisle, England |
Died | 8 February 2016(2016-02-08) (aged 77) London, England |
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Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Years active | 1961−2015 |
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