Penelope Fitzgerald
English biographer and novelist (1916–2000) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England.[1] In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[2] The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels".[3] A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."[4]
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Born | Penelope Mary Knox (1916-12-17)17 December 1916 Lincoln, England |
Died | 28 April 2000(2000-04-28) (aged 83) London, England |
Occupation | Writer |
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Desmond Fitzgerald
(m. 1941; died 1976) |
Parents | E. V. Knox (father) Mary Shepard (step-mother) |
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