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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. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [2]
Penelope Fitzgerald (born December 17, 1916, Lincoln, England—died April 28, 2000, London) was an English novelist and biographer noted for her economical, yet evocative, witty, and intricate works often concerned with the efforts of her characters to cope with their unfortunate life circumstances.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- April 28, 2000
- December 17, 1916
- The Bookshop.
- Offshore.
- The Blue Flower.
- The Beginning of Spring.
Nov 17, 2014 · So Penelope Fitzgerald described the English town of Southwold, on the Suffolk coast—a place of wet winds, speeding clouds, and withdrawn beauty where she and her family moved in 1957, when she...
Learn about the life and works of Penelope Fitzgerald, a British novelist and biographer who won four Booker Prizes. Explore her fiction and non-fiction, from The Bookshop to The Blue Flower, and her awards and legacy.
- Lincoln, England
- Flamingo
Nov 18, 2014 · The English writer Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) didn’t publish her first book until she was nearly 60 and wasn’t much noticed, at least in the United States, until she was in her 80s....
Learn about the life and works of Penelope Fitzgerald, the novelist and biographer who won the Booker Prize in 1979 with Offshore. Explore her other books, her teaching career, her houseboat experiences and her role as a judge.
