Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster
Born(1938-05-25)25 May 1938
Carlisle, England
Died8 February 2016(2016-02-08) (aged 77)
London, England
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • biographer
  • literary critic
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
Years active1961−2015
Spouse
(m. 1960)

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.