Penelope Fitzgerald Writer

Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize–winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels".

Personal facts

Birth dateDecember 17, 1916
Birth namePenelope Knox
Birth place
Lincoln England
Date of deathApril 28, 2000

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Writer

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award
Man Booker Prize
notable work
The Bookshop
Offshore (novel)

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External resources

  1. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7157313.ece
  2. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/penelope-fitzgerald-appreciation
  3. http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00037.xml&query=fitzgerald,penelope&query-join=and
  4. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/26/fiction
  5. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/fitzgerald.addition.html