Penelope Fitzgerald | |
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| Born | Penelope Mary Knox 17 December 1916 Lincoln, England |
| Died | 28 April 2000 (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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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]
- ^ Hollinghurst, Alan (4 December 2014). "The Victory of Penelope Fitzgerald". The New York Review of Books. 61 (19). Archived from the original on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times (London). 5 January 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ Skidelsky, William (13 May 2012). "The 10 best historical novels". The Observer. London. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ ‘Penelope Fitzgerald’, Telegraph, 3 May 2000, p. 27